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Bill	Health care: outpatient settings and surgical clinics: facilities: licensure and enforcement.	The Medical Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Existing law provides that it is unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to perform procedures in any outpatient setting except in compliance with specified provisions. Existing law prohibits an association, corporation, firm, partnership, or person from operating, managing, conducting, or maintaining an outpatient setting in the state unless the setting is one of the specified settings, which include, among others, an ambulatory surgical clinic that is certified to participate in the Medicare Program, a surgical clinic licensed by the State Department of Public Health, or an outpatient setting accredited by an accreditation agency approved by the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 396	California SB 396 (20152016)	bill	Health care: outpatient settings and surgical clinics: facilities: licensure and enforcement.	enacted	Hill	8	32	9	2015-02-25	2015-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/5c1fb0a4-8ca1-4c2e-b4be-6c84c23a03de	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB396	b5ca0cc6546bed28e3a31b4b7ef902514a622beb1ce9f00dbc8820dc3edc33b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 396 (20152016) — Health care: outpatient settings and surgical clinics: facilities: licensure and enforcement.

The Medical Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Existing law provides that it is unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to perform procedures in any outpatient setting except in compliance with specified provisions. Existing law prohibits an association, corporation, firm, partnership, or person from operating, managing, conducting, or maintaining an outpatient setting in the state unless the setting is one of the specified settings, which include, among others, an ambulatory surgical clinic that is certified to participate in the Medicare Program, a surgical clinic licensed by the State Department of Public Health, or an outpatient setting accredited by an accreditation agency approved by the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/14/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/05/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/09/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB396 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/27/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 396 Hill Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #7 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-25 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-26 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 28.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-03-18 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2015-04-07 April 13 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-04-08 Set for hearing April 20.
• 2015-04-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 699.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-22 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2015-04-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-04 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 861.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-08 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2015-05-18 May 18 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-05-23 Set for hearing May 28.
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1153.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1202.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-18 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-06-29 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-30 June 30 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-15 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-16 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2534.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-20 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-08-25 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2015-08-27 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2205.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.
• 2015-09-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 287, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c1fb0a4-8ca1-4c2e-b4be-6c84c23a03de. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).