---
type: "Bill"
title: "Physicians and surgeons."
description: "Physicians and surgeons."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 236"
citation: "California AB 236 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Physicians and surgeons."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bermudez"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2003-01-30"
last_action: "2003-09-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ecc50602-f607-471b-91d6-1d28940ad061"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB236"
source_hash: "c2918e33d28260729855e38ba9e088ddcd36a41b4c585619d08917408759f5a9"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 236 (20032004) — Physicians and surgeons.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/30/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB236&version=20030AB23699INT)
2. **05/08/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB236&version=20030AB23698AMD)
3. **05/21/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB236&version=20030AB23697AMD)
4. **05/27/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB236&version=20030AB23696AMD)
5. **06/30/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB236&version=20030AB23695AMD)
6. **07/22/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB236&version=20030AB23694AMD)
7. **09/12/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB236&version=20030AB23692CHP)
8. **AB236** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB236)
9. **09/02/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB236&version=20030AB23693ENR)

## Votes

- special consent #24 ab236 bermudez — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 236 bermudez assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 236 bermudez concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bermudez — primary (person)
- Aghazarian — coauthor (person)
- Benoit — coauthor (person)
- Berg — coauthor (person)
- Cohn — coauthor (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Daucher — coauthor (person)
- Diaz — coauthor (person)
- Firebaugh — coauthor (person)
- Haynes — coauthor (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)
- La Suer — coauthor (person)
- Maze — coauthor (person)
- Mountjoy — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Nunez — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Parra — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Ridley-Thomas — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)
- Samuelian — coauthor (person)
- Spitzer — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)
- Wyland — coauthor (person)
- Yee — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2003-09-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 348, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-09** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2003-09-02** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3326.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-08-25** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2117.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-20** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-19** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2003-07-22** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-21** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 4. Noes 0.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-10** Joint Rule 61(a)(9) suspended. (Page 1731.)
- **2003-07-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-06-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-29** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1949.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-27** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-22** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (May 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-05-12** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-04-02** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 1). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-02-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2003-01-31** From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
- **2003-01-30** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ecc50602-f607-471b-91d6-1d28940ad061`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).