---
type: "Bill"
title: "Healing arts: hospitals: employment."
description: "Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, restricts the employment of licensed physicians and surgeons and podiatrists by a corporation or other artificial legal entity, subject to specified exemptions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 1274"
citation: "California SB 1274 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Healing arts: hospitals: employment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wolk"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-02-23"
last_action: "2012-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bdfc605-0fc5-4f56-87bd-36de598c3d30"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1274"
source_hash: "34a5fe283021c31e797cd9ef1710f5e7c9582b0a8e13f8169bf539ac4df212f3"
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 SB 1274 (20112012) — Healing arts: hospitals: employment.

Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, restricts the employment of licensed physicians and surgeons and podiatrists by a corporation or other artificial legal entity, subject to specified exemptions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1274&version=20110SB127499INT)
2. **04/09/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1274&version=20110SB127498AMD)
3. **04/26/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1274&version=20110SB127497AMD)
4. **09/29/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1274&version=20110SB127495CHP)
5. **SB1274** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1274)
6. **08/24/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1274&version=20110SB127496ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Health. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1274 Wolk Senate Third Reading By MITCHELL — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wolk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-23** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2012-02-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
- **2012-03-08** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-05** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2012-04-09** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-04-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3230.) (April 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3397.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-03** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-17** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & C.P. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-05** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-09** From consent calendar.
- **2012-08-09** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6119.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-22** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2012-08-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2012-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 793, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6bdfc605-0fc5-4f56-87bd-36de598c3d30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).