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 SB-679 Health care facilities: physicians and surgeons: terminations and revocation of staff privileges: data reporting by race and gender.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/22/2025 09:00 PM

SB679:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 22, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 25, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 679

Introduced by Senator Weber Pierson

February 21, 2025

An act to add Section 805.3 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

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

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 and the Medical Board of California 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 applied 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 data information on the
 department’s internet website without disclosing 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.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 805.3 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:

805.3.

 (a) On or before March 1 of each year, a health care facility or peer review body shall submit a report to the Civil Rights Department and the Medical Board of California that includes, for the prior calendar year, the following:

(1) The number of physicians and surgeons and medical residents at the health care facility who were terminated.

(2) The number of physicians and surgeons who applied
 completed an application for staff privileges at the health care facility.

(3) The number of physicians and surgeons who were granted staff privileges at the health care facility.

(4) The number of physicians and surgeons whose staff privileges were revoked at the health care facility.

(5) The number of physicians and surgeons and medical residents at the health care facility whose staff privileges were suspended.

 (5)

(6) The percentage of physicians and surgeons in each of the categories specified in paragraphs (1) to (4), (5), inclusive, who identified their race or gender.

(6)

(7) The percentage of medical residents at the health care facilities who were terminated and who identified
 their race or gender.

(7)

(8) The number of physicians and surgeons in each of the categories specified in paragraphs (1) to (4), (5), inclusive, and wh