republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-909.md

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Bill	Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program.	Existing law establishes the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program (program) in the California Physician Corps Program within the Department of Health Care Access and Information, which provides financial incentives, including repayment of educational loans, to a physician and surgeon who practices for 3 years in a medically underserved area, as defined, and in specified practice settings, as defined. Existing law requires the department to establish an advisory committee, in consultation with the Medical Board of California and specified individuals, to provide ongoing management of the program. Existing law authorizes the department to award up to 20% of the available positions to program applicants from specialties outside of primary care specialties. Existing law establishes the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians (account) , a continuously appropriated account, within the Health Professions Education Fund, to primarily provide funding for the ongoing operations of the program. Existing law prohibits loan repayments under the program from exceeding $105,000 per individual licensed physician, and from exceeding the amount of the educational loans incurred by the physician participant.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 909	California SB 909 (20232024)	bill appropriation	Steven M Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program	enacted	Umberg	7	27	8	2024-01-08	2024-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/6dd30b48-8a14-429e-9d5f-cc57384a203b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB909	113f076be88e0b3c1d81ca92c927fbe9a66420d1c8b3ef55b184f5f4f88bf8b8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 909 (20232024) — Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program.

Existing law establishes the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program (program) in the California Physician Corps Program within the Department of Health Care Access and Information, which provides financial incentives, including repayment of educational loans, to a physician and surgeon who practices for 3 years in a medically underserved area, as defined, and in specified practice settings, as defined. Existing law requires the department to establish an advisory committee, in consultation with the Medical Board of California and specified individuals, to provide ongoing management of the program. Existing law authorizes the department to award up to 20% of the available positions to program applicants from specialties outside of primary care specialties. Existing law establishes the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians (account) , a continuously appropriated account, within the Health Professions Education Fund, to primarily provide funding for the ongoing operations of the program. Existing law prohibits loan repayments under the program from exceeding $105,000 per individual licensed physician, and from exceeding the amount of the educational loans incurred by the physician participant.

Version chain

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

1. 01/08/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/26/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/10/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/25/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB909 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/30/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB909 Umberg et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 909 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Weber — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB909 Umberg et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Umberg — primary (person)
• McGuire — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-09 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 8.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-03-06 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 Set for hearing April 3.
• 2024-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3468.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-05 Set for hearing April 15.
• 2024-04-15 April 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3963.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4135.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-05-28 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2024-06-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6382.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-20 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-08-28 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5611.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 594, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6dd30b48-8a14-429e-9d5f-cc57384a203b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).