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Bill	Physicians and surgeons: special faculty permits: academic medical center.	Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, generally prohibits the practice of medicine without a physician's and surgeon's certificate issued by the Medical Board of California. The Medical Practice Act authorizes a person who meets certain eligibility requirements to apply to the board for a special faculty permit, which authorizes the holder to practice medicine without a physician's and surgeon's certificate only within the medical school itself, any affiliated institution of the medical school, or an academic medical center and any affiliated institution in which the permitholder is providing instruction as part of the medical school's or academic medical center's educational program and for which the medical school or academic medical center has assumed direct responsibility. Existing law defines "academic medical center" for these purposes as a facility that meets certain requirements, including training a minimum of 250 residents and postdoctoral fellows annually, having foreign medical graduates in clinical research, and offering clinical observership training.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2178	California AB 2178 (20212022)	bill	Physicians and surgeons: special faculty permits: academic medical center.	enacted	Bloom	5	22	6	2022-02-15	2022-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/94c99874-096e-4f59-b68a-86b9a0f8d71d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2178	fdc71731a0fa7a399a97c10a1f50a00645592c50e72463561efa228800d2dd38	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2178 (20212022) — Physicians and surgeons: special faculty permits: academic medical center.

Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, generally prohibits the practice of medicine without a physician's and surgeon's certificate issued by the Medical Board of California. The Medical Practice Act authorizes a person who meets certain eligibility requirements to apply to the board for a special faculty permit, which authorizes the holder to practice medicine without a physician's and surgeon's certificate only within the medical school itself, any affiliated institution of the medical school, or an academic medical center and any affiliated institution in which the permitholder is providing instruction as part of the medical school's or academic medical center's educational program and for which the medical school or academic medical center has assumed direct responsibility. Existing law defines "academic medical center" for these purposes as a facility that meets certain requirements, including training a minimum of 250 residents and postdoctoral fellows annually, having foreign medical graduates in clinical research, and offering clinical observership training.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/14/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/15/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2178 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2178 Bloom By Allen — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2178 Bloom Consent Calendar Second Day — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2178 Bloom Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bloom — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2022-02-24 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2022-03-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 4658.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-25 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2022-06-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-06-09 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-06-14 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-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5121.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 329, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/94c99874-096e-4f59-b68a-86b9a0f8d71d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).