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Bill	Medical Board of California: licensee discipline: abortion.	Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Existing law authorizes the board to take action against all persons guilty of violating the Medical Practice Act. Existing law requires the board to enforce and administer various disciplinary provisions as to physician and surgeon certificate holders.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2626	California AB 2626 (20212022)	bill	Medical Board of California: licensee discipline: abortion.	enacted	Calderon	12	36	9	2022-02-18	2022-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/20853121-b532-481e-a349-a58dc81a8c73	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2626	9e6cf52ae2ef1a464687145e3529194a7f07d27866e15305732ec3fd2a4505bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2626 (20212022) — Medical Board of California: licensee discipline: abortion.

Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Existing law authorizes the board to take action against all persons guilty of violating the Medical Practice Act. Existing law requires the board to enforce and administer various disciplinary provisions as to physician and surgeon certificate holders.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/06/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/18/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/16/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/06/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/20/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/01/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/24/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/27/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB2626 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2626 Calderon et al. By Kamlager Urgency Clause — 30–9 (pass) · upper
• AB 2626 Calderon Assembly Third Reading Amendment Set #1 — 51–16 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2626 Calderon Third Reading Urgency — 56–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 9–3 (pass) · upper
• AB 2626 CALDERON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 61–16 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Calderon — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Bennett — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Newman — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2022-03-17 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-03-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2022-04-05 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (April 5). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-06 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-04-18 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-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 Coauthors revised.
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-16 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 4708.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-23 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 15. Page 4824.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-06-06 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
• 2022-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-07-27 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-08-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-31 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 5387.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 16.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 565, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/20853121-b532-481e-a349-a58dc81a8c73. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).