Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, restricts the employment of physicians and surgeons or doctors of podiatric medicine by a corporation or other artificial legal entity to entities that do not charge for professional services rendered to patients and are approved by the Medical Board of California, subject to specified exemptions. Existing law establishes the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, which succeeds to and is vested with all the duties, powers, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the State Department of Public Health relating to health planning and research development.
California AB 2024 (20152016) — Critical access hospitals: employment.
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, restricts the employment of physicians and surgeons or doctors of podiatric medicine by a corporation or other artificial legal entity to entities that do not charge for professional services rendered to patients and are approved by the Medical Board of California, subject to specified exemptions. Existing law establishes the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, which succeeds to and is vested with all the duties, powers, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the State Department of Public Health relating to health planning and research development.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Health] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Wood — primary (person)
Bigelow — coauthor (person)
Dahle — coauthor (person)
Gaines — coauthor (person)
Gallagher — coauthor (person)
Obernolte — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2016-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2016-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
2016-02-29 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and HEALTH. referral-committee
2016-04-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 5). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2016-04-11 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2016-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2016-04-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2016-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2016-05-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4679.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2016-05-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2016-05-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
2016-05-26 Re-referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and HEALTH. referral-committee
2016-06-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 6). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2016-06-09 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
2016-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2016-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5414.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2016-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2016-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6538.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2016-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
2016-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2016-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 496, Statutes of 2016.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/002cb684-c980-4027-bf65-3c943e0afad0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).