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CaliforniaSB 3872025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

Physicians and surgeons: special faculty permits: comprehensive cancer centers.

Sponsored By: Susan Rubio (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 2 costs, 2 mixed.

New limits on special faculty permit holders

If you hold a special faculty permit, you may only practice at the medical school or its affiliates. You may also practice at an academic medical center and its affiliates where you teach and the school or center has direct responsibility. Time in this permit role does not count toward California postgraduate training or any exam waiver. You cannot be made a division chief or department head unless the Medical Board gives written approval first.

Who can get a special faculty permit

You can apply if you are academically eminent and have a current medical license from another state or country. You are academically eminent if you hold or were offered a full-time, tenure-track full professor role at a California medical school or academic medical center. Or you are clearly outstanding, offered a full-time professor or associate professor role, and there is a great need for you. You must not be disqualified under Section 480 and must pay the application and initial licensure fee. If you held a Section 2113 position for two or more years, the Medical Board can waive that rule.

New path for NCI cancer centers

The law updates who counts as an academic medical center. A center must be licensed in California, do ongoing peer review, and conduct clinical and basic research. It must train 250 residents each year, or, if it is an NCI comprehensive cancer center, at least 25 residents or fellows each year. The counts are measured each year beginning January 1. It must also have over 100 research students or postdocs, include foreign medical graduates in research, and offer clinical observer experiences. Centers need WASC and ACGME accreditation, but NCI comprehensive cancer centers need only ACGME.

How permit applications are reviewed and capped

The Medical Board uses a review committee with two division members, one representative from each medical school, and one person chosen by academic medical centers. The school or center sponsoring an applicant cannot vote on that applicant. The academic centers’ representative must come from a center that trains at least 250 residents a year. The Board may approve at most five permits from any one academic medical center in a calendar year.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Susan Rubio

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 192 • No: 0

Senate vote • 8/25/2025

Item 274 — Senate SFLOOR

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 7/17/2025

Item 136 — Assembly AFLOOR

Yes: 75 • No: 0

legislature vote • 7/9/2025

Vote in CX25

Yes: 15 • No: 0

legislature vote • 6/24/2025

Vote in CX33

Yes: 16 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/3/2025

Item 14 — Senate SFLOOR

Yes: 39 • No: 0

legislature vote • 4/7/2025

Vote in CS42

Yes: 10 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 752, Statutes of 2025.

    10/13/2025Senate

  2. Approved by the Governor.

    10/13/2025legislature

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

    9/2/2025legislature

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2253.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

    8/25/2025Senate

  5. Ordered to special consent calendar.

    8/21/2025Senate

  6. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

    7/17/2025Senate

  7. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2595.) Ordered to the Senate.

    7/17/2025House

  8. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

    7/10/2025House

  9. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9).

    7/9/2025House

  10. 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.

    6/24/2025House

  11. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.

    6/16/2025House

  12. Referred to Com. on B. & P.

    6/9/2025House

  13. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

    6/4/2025House

  14. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1462.) Ordered to the Assembly.

    6/3/2025Senate

  15. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    4/22/2025Senate

  16. From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

    4/21/2025Senate

  17. Set for hearing April 21.

    4/9/2025Senate

  18. 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.

    4/7/2025Senate

  19. Set for hearing April 7.

    3/18/2025Senate

  20. Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.

    2/26/2025Senate

  21. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.

    2/18/2025Senate

  22. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    2/14/2025Senate

Bill Text

  • Chaptered

    10/13/2025

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  • Enrolled

    8/27/2025

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  • Amended Assembly

    6/16/2025

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  • Introduced

    2/14/2025

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