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Bill	Medicine: continuing medical education: sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.	Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Under the act, a physician and surgeon is required to demonstrate satisfaction of continuing education requirements. Existing law requires all continuing medical education courses on or after July 1, 2006, to contain curriculum that includes cultural and linguistic competency, as defined, in the practice of medicine. Existing law requires accrediting associations to develop standards for compliance with the cultural competency requirement before July 1, 2006, and authorizes the development of these standards in conjunction with an advisory group that has expertise in cultural and linguistic competency issues, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 496	California AB 496 (20132014)	bill	Medicine: continuing medical education: sexual orientation gender identity and gender expression.	enacted	Gordon	8	32	7	2013-02-20	2014-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/8a5591f2-a9e1-4a50-8782-d8f7df9c4362	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB496	43199ac6bb308e7caaf3cac73ee18678898a60f2f4556418f54b42f39f15295e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 496 (20132014) — Medicine: continuing medical education: sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Under the act, a physician and surgeon is required to demonstrate satisfaction of continuing education requirements. Existing law requires all continuing medical education courses on or after July 1, 2006, to contain curriculum that includes cultural and linguistic competency, as defined, in the practice of medicine. Existing law requires accrediting associations to develop standards for compliance with the cultural competency requirement before July 1, 2006, and authorizes the development of these standards in conjunction with an advisory group that has expertise in cultural and linguistic competency issues, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/25/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/26/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB496 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/22/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB496 Gordon By Lara — 25–10 (pass) · upper
• AB 496 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–12 (pass) · lower
• amendments be concurred in. — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 496 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — 54–20 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gordon — primary (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Lara — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2013-03-04 Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-04-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 20. Page 1671.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-06 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2013-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-08-12 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2013-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-04 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Lara.
• 2014-06-25 From inactive file.
• 2014-06-25 Ordered to second reading.
• 2014-06-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 10. Page 4364.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-11 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2014-08-19 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6192.)
• 2014-08-20 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (August 20). committee-passage
• 2014-08-21 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 12. Page 6302.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 630, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8a5591f2-a9e1-4a50-8782-d8f7df9c4362. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).