republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-2024.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Critical access hospitals: employment."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2024"
citation: "California AB 2024 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Critical access hospitals: employment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wood"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2016-02-16"
last_action: "2016-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/002cb684-c980-4027-bf65-3c943e0afad0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2024"
source_hash: "39227b59b19de290b0a20ae6ed32c070cc7b49c8a55017ac238576feda01158e"
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 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.

1. **02/16/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2024&version=20150AB202499INT)
2. **04/11/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2024&version=20150AB202498AMD)
3. **05/23/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2024&version=20150AB202497AMD)
4. **06/09/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2024&version=20150AB202496AMD)
5. **08/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2024&version=20150AB202495AMD)
6. **09/23/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2024&version=20150AB202493CHP)
7. **AB2024** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2024)
8. **09/02/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2024&version=20150AB202494ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2024 WOOD Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2024 WOOD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2024 Wood By Hernandez — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- 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`
- **2016-04-28** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Page 4554.)
- **2016-04-28** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-04-28** Ordered to second reading.
- **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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/002cb684-c980-4027-bf65-3c943e0afad0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).