Cottie Petrie-Norris
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 73
Author
Existing law establishes a variety of health care workforce training programs and health professions education programs within the Department of Health Care Access and Information to, among other things, maximize the delivery of primary care and family physician services to specific areas of California where there is a recognized unmet priority need for those services and ensure an adequate supply of appropriately trained professional and vocational nurses. Existing law establishes the Health Professions Education Fund to support those programs by providing scholarships and loans to students from underrepresented groups who are accepted to or enrolled in schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, or other health professions. This bill would establish the California Reproductive Health Service Corps within the department for the purposes of recruiting, training, and retaining a diverse workforce of reproductive health care professionals who will be part of reproductive health care teams to work in underserved areas. The bill would require the corps to administer and oversee scholarships and stipends for scholars who are new reproductive health students, and loan repayment for scholars who have acquired debt from attending a reproductive health professional school in the past, in exchange for a 3-year term of obligated service in California at a corps-approved site. The bill would require the corps to prioritize the selection of scholars from historically excluded populations and underserved areas, and would require scholars to agree to complete abortion training as part of their health care education and to provide, or participate on a team that provides, reproductive health services and to commit to working at a corps-approved site in a specified area with a specified population. This bill would require the department to conduct an evaluation 5 years after implementation to assess the impact and effectiveness of the corps, and would require the department to report its findings to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2029.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 561, Statutes of 2022.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5123.).
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 12.).
Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 11).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 16.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4736.)
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 19).
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Coauthors revised.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4359.)
(pending re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED.)
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.
Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HIGHER ED.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB1918 | HTML |
| 02/09/22 - Introduced | |
| 03/24/22 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/20/22 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/14/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/11/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/29/22 - Enrolled | |
| 09/27/22 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/22/22- Assembly Health | |
| 04/25/22- Assembly Higher Education | |
| 05/16/22- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 05/20/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 06/27/22- Senate Health | |
| 07/29/22- Senate Appropriations | |
| 08/11/22- Senate Appropriations | |
| 08/13/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/25/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS |
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