republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1838.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Healing arts: medical school accreditation."
description: "Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Existing law requires each applicant for a physician's and surgeon's certificate to show by official transcript or other official evidence satisfactory to the Division of Licensing that he or she has successfully completed a specified medical curriculum that meets certain clinical instruction requirements extending over a period of at least 4 academic years, or 32 months of actual instruction, in a medical school, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1838"
citation: "California AB 1838 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Healing arts: medical school accreditation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonilla"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2014-02-18"
last_action: "2014-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/617e5df1-46a8-4a78-baa3-d0f3879b6267"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1838"
source_hash: "0a0ab46d6d719edbd76ae32b73a4a7ce14ee3c609761878bb088ea8bd5fb2e4c"
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 1838 (20132014) — Healing arts: medical school accreditation.

Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Existing law requires each applicant for a physician's and surgeon's certificate to show by official transcript or other official evidence satisfactory to the Division of Licensing that he or she has successfully completed a specified medical curriculum that meets certain clinical instruction requirements extending over a period of at least 4 academic years, or 32 months of actual instruction, in a medical school, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1838&version=20130AB183899INT)
2. **03/05/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1838&version=20130AB183898AMD)
3. **05/14/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1838&version=20130AB183897AMD)
4. **07/18/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1838&version=20130AB183895CHP)
5. **AB1838** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1838)
6. **07/02/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1838&version=20130AB183896ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1838 BONILLA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1838 BONILLA Assembly Third Reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bonilla — primary (person)
- Pan — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2014-02-27** Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-06** Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-03-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4238.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-03-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-04-10** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-14** 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-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-05** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-06-17** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-18** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4141.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-06-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5732.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2014-07-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 143, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/617e5df1-46a8-4a78-baa3-d0f3879b6267`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).