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type: "Bill"
title: "California Physician Corps Program."
description: "Existing law establishes the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program in the California Physician Corps Program within the Health Professions Education Foundation, which provides financial incentives, as specified, to a physician and surgeon for practicing in a medically underserved community. Existing law authorizes the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to adopt guidelines by regulation and requires the foundation to use guidelines for selection and placement of program applicants. These guidelines provide priority consideration to applicants who meet specified criteria, including that the applicant has 3 years of experience working in medically underserved areas or with medically underserved populations. The guidelines also must seek to place the most qualified applicants in the areas with the greatest need."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 565"
citation: "California AB 565 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Physician Corps Program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/431873d1-9c5a-4f09-8f87-df70c74839dc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB565"
source_hash: "e2c6d4f50b212e127c0c0f09b46d42749535d2f308ec5370477d8cd01712825a"
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 565 (20132014) — California Physician Corps Program.
Existing law establishes the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program in the California Physician Corps Program within the Health Professions Education Foundation, which provides financial incentives, as specified, to a physician and surgeon for practicing in a medically underserved community. Existing law authorizes the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to adopt guidelines by regulation and requires the foundation to use guidelines for selection and placement of program applicants. These guidelines provide priority consideration to applicants who meet specified criteria, including that the applicant has 3 years of experience working in medically underserved areas or with medically underserved populations. The guidelines also must seek to place the most qualified applicants in the areas with the greatest need.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB565&version=20130AB56599INT)
2. **04/10/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB565&version=20130AB56598AMD)
3. **04/23/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB565&version=20130AB56597AMD)
4. **07/02/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB565&version=20130AB56596AMD)
5. **09/03/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB565&version=20130AB56595AMD)
6. **09/27/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB565&version=20130AB56593CHP)
7. **AB565** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB565)
8. **09/16/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB565&version=20130AB56594ENR)
## Votes
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **90** (pass) · upper
- AB 565 SALAS Consent Calendar Second Day — **700** (pass) · lower
- AB 565 SALAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **780** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **170** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **190** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB565 Salas By Anderson — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Salas — primary (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)
- Chesbro — coauthor (person)
- Logue — coauthor (person)
- Pan — 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.
- **2013-03-07** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-22** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-23** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-24** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1477.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-07-01** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-07-02** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-08-12** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2013-08-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2239.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-09-10** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
- **2013-09-10** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
- **2013-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3104.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2013-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 378, Statutes of 2013.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/431873d1-9c5a-4f09-8f87-df70c74839dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).