Bill Text: CA SB392 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
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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]
Download: California-2017-SB392-Amended.html
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Local Program:
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SECTION 1. Section 1646 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 1646.
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]
Download: California-2017-SB392-Amended.html
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April 04, 2017 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Senate Bill | No. 392 |
| Introduced by Senator Bates |
February 15, 2017 |
An act to amend Section 1646 of add Section 1601.7 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to dentistry.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 392, as amended, Bates.
Dentistry. Dentistry: report: access to care: pediatric dental patients.
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 a dentist who administers or orders the administration of general anesthesia and defines general anesthesia in this regard. anesthesia on an outpatient basis for dental patients, including a requirement that the dentist holds a valid anesthesia permit issued by the board.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision that defines general anesthesia.
This bill, on or before January 1, 2019, would require the board to provide to the Legislature a report and analysis, as specified, of the effects on access to care for pediatric dental patients specifically as it relates to requiring the addition of a 2nd general anesthesia permitholder to be present during the administration of general anesthesia on a patient 7 years of age or younger, if the provider is currently a general anesthesia permitholder.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1601.7 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:1601.7.
(a) On or before January 1, 2019, the board shall provide to the Legislature a report and analysis of the effects on access to care for pediatric dental patients specifically as it relates to requiring the addition of a second general anesthesia permitholder to be present during the administration of general anesthesia on a patient seven years of age or younger, if the provider is currently a general anesthesia permitholder. The analysis should include costs of sedation and anesthesia, resource constraints of the healthcare system, including Denti-Cal compared to private insurance, and feasibility issues that include, but are not limited to, time, skills, staff availability, and equipment availability for the provider to carry out necessary dental procedures. The board shall make the report publicly available on the board’s Internet Web site.(b) (1) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2023.
“General anesthesia,” as used in this article, 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.
