Bill Text: CA SB392 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 392 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Parental Empowerment Pilot Project.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-05-07 - Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. [SB392 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 392

Introduced by Senator Bates

February 15, 2017

An act to amend Section 1646 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to dentistry.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 392, as introduced, Bates. Dentistry.

The Dental Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation of dentists by the Dental Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act, among other things, prescribes requirements for dentists who administer or order the administration of general anesthesia and defines general anesthesia in this regard.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision that defines general anesthesia.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 1646 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

1646.

“General anesthesia,” as used in this article, ~~means~~ is defined as a controlled state of depressed consciousness or unconsciousness, accompanied by partial or complete loss of protective reflexes, produced by a pharmacologic or nonpharmacologic method, or a combination thereof.