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I just checked out this report on AB 2194.

Here's the info from state of Calif.'s web server. NOTE: SEE LAST SENTENCE OF SECTION ONE.

The story is correct.
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BILL NUMBER: AB 2194 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT

CHAPTER 384
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 6, 2002
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 5, 2002
PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 12, 2002
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY MAY 16, 2002
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 29, 2002
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 17, 2002

INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Jackson
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Cohn, Goldberg, Koretz, and
Strom-Martin)
(Coauthor: Senator Kuehl)

FEBRUARY 20, 2002

An act to add Section 123418 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to physicians and surgeons.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2194, Jackson. Obstetrics and gynecology residency
requirements.
Existing law, the Therapeutic Abortion Act, authorizes the
performance of a therapeutic abortion by a physician and surgeon
subject to specified procedures and requirements.
This bill would require all residency programs in obstetrics and
gynecology to comply with the program requirements of the
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. Section 123418 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
123418. Subject to all other provisions of this article, all
residency programs in obstetrics and gynecology shall comply with the
program requirements for residency education in obstetrics and
gynecology of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education, which requires that in addition to education and training
in in-patient care, the program in obstetrics-gynecology be geared
toward the development of competence in the provision of ambulatory
primary health care for women, including, but not limited to,
training in the performance of abortion services.