republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-589.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical school scholarships."
description: "Existing law establishes the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians within the Health Professions Education Fund that is managed by the Health Professions Education Foundation and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. Under existing law, the primary purpose of the account is to fund the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program, which provides for the repayment of prescribed educational loans, not to exceed $105,000 per individual, obtained by a physician and surgeon who practices in a medically underserved area of the state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 589"
citation: "California AB 589 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medical school scholarships."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Perea"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2011-02-16"
last_action: "2012-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dddb12f2-bdbd-45ae-99e6-4e8759785cbe"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB589"
source_hash: "e3cba8b2b8f79c48a159ecf1cfe170418699bbe05bc7cf660e37b18e957a0366"
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 589 (20112012) — Medical school scholarships.

Existing law establishes the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians within the Health Professions Education Fund that is managed by the Health Professions Education Foundation and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. Under existing law, the primary purpose of the account is to fund the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program, which provides for the repayment of prescribed educational loans, not to exceed $105,000 per individual, obtained by a physician and surgeon who practices in a medically underserved area of the state.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB589&version=20110AB58999INT)
2. **04/11/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB589&version=20110AB58998AMD)
3. **05/27/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB589&version=20110AB58997AMD)
4. **07/12/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB589&version=20110AB58996AMD)
5. **08/17/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB589&version=20110AB58995AMD)
6. **08/21/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB589&version=20110AB58994AMD)
7. **09/17/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB589&version=20110AB58992CHP)
8. **AB589** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB589)
9. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB589&version=20110AB58993ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB589 Perea By Padilla — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 589 PEREA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–4** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–3** (pass) · lower
- AB 589 PEREA Assembly Third Reading — **63–10** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Perea — primary (person)
- Alquist — principal coauthor (person)
- Rubio — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2011-03-03** Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-12** Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-27** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 10. Page 1734.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-08** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-07-11** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-15** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-08-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-25** In committee: Held under submission.
- **2012-08-20** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4708.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 4. Page 6295.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2012-09-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 339, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dddb12f2-bdbd-45ae-99e6-4e8759785cbe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).