SB 679: Health care facilities: physicians and surgeons: terminations and revocation of staff privileges: data reporting by race and gender.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law establishes a peer review process for certain healing arts licensees and requires peer review bodies to review licensee conduct under specified circumstances. If a licentiate’s membership, staff privileges, or employment is terminated or revoked for a medical disciplinary cause or reason, existing law requires the chief executive officer or administrator of a licensed health care facility, among others, to file an “805 report” with the relevant state licensing agency having regulatory jurisdiction over the licentiate.

This bill would require a health care facility or peer review body, on or before March 1 of each year, to submit a report to the Civil Rights Department that includes, among other data, the number of physicians and surgeons and medical residents at the health care facility who were terminated, the number of physicians and surgeons who completed an application for staff privileges, were granted staff privileges, or for whom staff privileges were suspended or revoked, and the number of physicians and surgeons or medical residents in those categories, stratified by race and gender. The bill would require the Civil Rights Department, on or before September 1 of each year, to publish the information on the department’s internet website, would require the information to be aggregated and deidentified, and would prohibit disclosure of the names of the health care facilities or any personally identifiable information.

Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.

This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. February 2, 2026Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
2. May 23, 2025May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
3. May 16, 2025Set for hearing May 23.
4. May 12, 2025May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
5. May 2, 2025Set for hearing May 12.
6. April 30, 2025From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 942.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
7. April 22, 2025Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
8. April 21, 2025From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 809.) (April 21).
9. April 8, 2025Set for hearing April 29 in JUD. pending receipt.
10. April 3, 2025Set for hearing April 21.
11. April 2, 2025Re-referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D. and JUD.
12. March 25, 2025From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.