Bill Text: CA SB1132 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Healing arts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-25 - To Com. on RLS. [SB1132 Detail]
Download: California-2009-SB1132-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 1132 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Senator Negrete McLeod
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
An act to amend Section 680 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1132, as introduced, Negrete McLeod. Healing arts.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various
healing arts practitioners and requires a healing arts practitioner,
as defined, to wear a name tag while working that discloses his or
her name and license status in at least 18-point type, except as
specified.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 680 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
680. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a health
care practitioner shall disclose, while working, his or her name and
practitioner's license status, as granted by this state, on a name
tag in at least 18-point type. A health care practitioner in a
practice or an office, whose license is prominently displayed, may
opt to not wear a name tag. If a health care practitioner or a
licensed clinical social worker is working in a psychiatric setting
or in a setting that is not licensed by the state, the employing
entity or agency shall have the discretion to make an exception from
the name tag requirement for individual safety or therapeutic
concerns. In the interest of public safety and consumer awareness, it
shall be unlawful for any a person to
use the title "nurse" in reference to himself or herself and in any
capacity, except for an individual who is a registered nurse or a
licensed vocational nurse, or as otherwise provided in Section 2800.
Nothing in this section shall prohibit a certified nurse assistant
from using his or her title.
(b) Facilities licensed by the State Department of Social
Services, the State Department of Mental Health, or the State
Department of Public Health Services
shall develop and implement policies to ensure that health care
practitioners providing care in those facilities are in compliance
with subdivision (a). The State Department of Social Services, the
State Department of Mental Health, and the State Department of
Public Health Services shall verify through
periodic inspections that the policies required pursuant to
subdivision (a) have been developed and implemented by the respective
licensed facilities.
(c) For purposes of this article, "health care practitioner" means
any a person who engages in acts that
are the subject of licensure or regulation under this division or
under any an initiative act referred to
in this division.
