Bill Text: CA SB198 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hearing aid dispensers: cerumen: management: tympanometry.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB198 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB198-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
April 17, 2017 |
Senate Bill | No. 198 |
Introduced by Senator Galgiani |
January 30, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would authorize that practice to include cerumen management, as defined, subject to specified requirements, including that the hearing aid dispenser demonstrates specified proficiency in cerumen management and that cerumen management only occur under physician and surgeon supervision. The bill would additionally authorize tympanometry as an allowable hearing test if it is only used for further referral to a physician and surgeon for diagnosis or treatment.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SECTION 1.SEC. 2.
Section 2538.11 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:2538.11.
(a) “Practice of fitting or selling hearing aids,” as used in this article, means those practices used for the purpose of selection and adaptation of hearing aids, including direct observation of the ear, testing of hearing in connection with the fitting and selling of hearing aids, taking of ear mold impressions, fitting or sale of hearing aids, and any necessary postfitting counseling. This may include cerumen(1)Cerumen management shall only be performed by a hearing aid dispenser who has demonstrated proficiency of this skill in his or her licensing examination.
(2)Cerumen management shall only occur under physician and surgeon supervision, which shall be subject to all of the following:
(A)The hearing aid dispenser and physician and surgeon shall collaborate to develop a written standardized protocol. The protocol shall include, but not be limited to, a requirement that the supervised hearing aid dispenser immediately refer to an appropriate physician and surgeon any trauma, including skin tears, bleeding, or other pathology of the ear discovered in the process of cerumen management.
(B)Approval by the supervising physician and surgeon of the written standardized protocol.
(C)The supervising physician and surgeon shall be within the general vicinity, as provided by the written standardized protocol, of the supervised hearing aid dispenser and shall be available by telephone at the time of cerumen management.
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