As the California legislature enters the sixth month of the 2024 legislative year, the California Medical Association (CMA) has published a Mid-Year Legislative Update, which provides an up-to-date overview of CMA’s advocacy on legislation impacting California patients, the medical profession and public health for the 2024 legislative session.

CMA has been at the forefront of key legislative battles, ensuring that many bills that would have negatively impacted patients and the practice of medicine would not move forward through the legislative process.

CMA successfully defeated several pieces of legislation that would have jeopardized patient safety by creating an exemption to the ban on the corporate practice of medicine; imposed burdensome regulations on physician practices; heightened the risk of unnecessary lawsuits against physician practices; and legislated the practice of medicine.

Each of CMA’s sponsored bills for 2024 have also cleared their houses of origin and will continue to make their way through the Legislature.

See CMA’s Mid-Year Legislative Update for overview of the bills CMA has opposed or successfully negotiated in this session, as well as a look at the status of CMA’s sponsored bills.