Bill Text: CA SB231 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Regulatory boards: healing arts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB231 Detail]
Download: California-2011-SB231-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 231 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Senator Emmerson
FEBRUARY 9, 2011
An act to amend Section 104 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to regulatory boards.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 231, as introduced, Emmerson. Regulatory boards: healing arts.
Existing law creates various regulatory boards within the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes
health-related boards to adopt regulations requiring licensees to
display their license or registration in the locality in which they
are treating patients and to make specified disclosures to patients.
This bill would make nonsubstantive, technical 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 104 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
104. All boards or other regulatory entities within the
department's jurisdiction that the department determines to be
health-related health related may adopt
regulations to require licensees a licensee
to display their licenses or registrations
his or her license or registration in the
locality in which they are he or she is
treating patients, and to inform patients as to the identity of the
regulatory agency they may contact if they have any questions or
complaints regarding the licensee. In complying with this
requirement, those boards may take into consideration the particular
settings in which licensees practice a
licensee practices , or other circumstances which
that may make the displaying
or providing of information to the consumer
extremely difficult for the licensee in their
his or her particular type of practice.
