CA SB 387
enactedPhysicians and surgeons: special faculty permits: academic medical centers.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did CA SB 387 pass?
Yes. CA SB 387 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-13. Latest recorded action (2025-10-13): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 752, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA SB 387 about?
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 a medical school itself, in any affiliated institution of the medical school, or in 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. Among those requirements, existing law requires the facility to train a minimum of 250 resident physicians annually and to be accredited by both the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. This bill would modify the requirements for a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center to qualify as an academic medical center by, instead, requiring the facility to train 25 resident or fellow physicians annually and exempting the facility from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation requirement. Existing law requires the board to establish a review committee to review and make recommendations to the board regarding applicants applying for special faculty permits and requires the review committee to include one representative to represent academic medical centers in California. Existing law authorizes the board to approve up to 5 applications for special faculty permits submitted by academic medical centers in any calendar year. This bill would require the individual representing academic medical centers to be from a facility that trains a minimum of 250 resident physicians in Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited residencies on an annual basis. The bill would authorize the board to approve up to 5 applications for special faculty permits submitted by each academic medical center in any calendar year.
Who sponsors CA SB 387?
Rubio is the primary sponsor of CA SB 387.
Description
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 a medical school itself, in any affiliated institution of the medical school, or in 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. Among those requirements, existing law requires the facility to train a minimum of 250 resident physicians annually and to be accredited by both the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. This bill would modify the requirements for a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center to qualify as an academic medical center by, instead, requiring the facility to train 25 resident or fellow physicians annually and exempting the facility from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation requirement. Existing law requires the board to establish a review committee to review and make recommendations to the board regarding applicants applying for special faculty permits and requires the review committee to include one representative to represent academic medical centers in California. Existing law authorizes the board to approve up to 5 applications for special faculty permits submitted by academic medical centers in any calendar year. This bill would require the individual representing academic medical centers to be from a facility that trains a minimum of 250 resident physicians in Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited residencies on an annual basis. The bill would authorize the board to approve up to 5 applications for special faculty permits submitted by each academic medical center in any calendar year.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-14
- Latest action
- 2025-10-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 752, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Rubioauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-14
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-18
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
2025-02-26
Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
referral-committee
2025-03-18
Set for hearing April 7.
2025-04-07
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 680.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-09
Set for hearing April 21.
2025-04-21
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
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2025-04-22
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-03
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1462.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-06-04
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-09
Referred to Com. on B. & P.
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2025-06-16
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
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2025-06-24
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-09
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9).
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2025-07-10
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-07-17
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2595.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2025-07-17
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-08-21
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-08-25
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2253.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2025-09-02
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
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2025-10-13
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-13
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 752, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-07 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Choi: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Niello: yes
- Strickland: other
3rd Reading
2025-06-03 · pass · 39-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Valladares: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Choi: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Stern: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Niello: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Grove: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Allen: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Jones: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Limón: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-24 · pass · 16-0
Member-level votes (18)
- Alanis: yes
- Berman: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Krell: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Haney: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Flora: yes
- Chen: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: other
- Bains: other
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-07-09 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Dixon: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Hart: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Ta: yes
- Sanchez: yes
SB 387 Rubio Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-07-17 · pass · 75-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Hart: yes
- Flora: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ward: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Haney: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Krell: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Fong: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Soria: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Patel: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Bains: yes
- Addis: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Papan: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Lee: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Davies: yes
- Lackey: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Chen: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Alvarez: other
- Bennett: other
- Berman: other
- Gallagher: other
Special Consent
2025-08-25 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Reyes: yes
- Allen: yes
- Jones: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Niello: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Grove: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Choi: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Limón: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Becker: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Hurtado: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
- Rubio: other
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