Bill Text: CA SB464 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Healing arts: self-reporting tools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 387, Statutes of 2015. [SB464 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB464-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 464	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  387
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 31, 2015
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 20, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 22, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 27, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

   An act to add Section 2242.2 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 464, Hernandez. Healing arts: self-reporting tools.
   The Medical Practice Act provides for licensure and regulation of
physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California, and
authorizes a physician and surgeon to, among other things, use drugs
or devices in or upon human beings. The Medical Practice Act makes it
unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to prescribe,
dispense, or furnish dangerous drugs without an appropriate prior
examination and medical indication. The act prohibits, with specified
exceptions, a person or entity from prescribing, dispensing, or
furnishing, or causing to be prescribed, dispensed, or furnished,
dangerous drugs or dangerous devices on the Internet for delivery to
a person in California without an appropriate prior examination and
medical indication.
   The Nursing Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation
of registered nurses, including nurse practitioners and certified
nurse-midwives, by the Board of Registered Nursing within the
Department of Consumer Affairs. The Nursing Practice Act authorizes a
registered nurse to dispense self-administered hormonal
contraceptives, as specified, in accordance with standardized
procedures, including demonstration of competency in providing the
appropriate prior examination comprised of checking blood pressure,
weight, and patient and family health history, including medications
taken by the patient. The Nursing Practice Act also authorizes
certified nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners to furnish or order
drugs or devices, as specified.
   The Physician Assistant Practice Act provides for the licensure
and regulation of physician assistants by the Physician Assistant
Board within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California, and
authorizes a physician assistant to administer or provide medication
to a patient or to transmit a drug order, as specified.
   The Pharmacy Law provides for the licensing and regulation of
pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy within the
Department of Consumer Affairs, and authorizes a pharmacist to
furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives in accordance with
standardized procedures and protocols. The Pharmacy Law requires the
standardized procedures and protocols to require a patient to use a
self-screening tool that will identify patient risk factors for the
use of self-administered hormonal contraceptives, as specified.
   This bill, notwithstanding any other law, would authorize a
physician and surgeon, a registered nurse acting in accordance with
the authority of the Nursing Practice Act, a certified nurse-midwife
acting within the scope of specified existing law relating to
nurse-midwives, a nurse practitioner acting within the scope of
specified existing law relating to nurse practitioners, a physician
assistant acting within the scope of specified existing law relating
to physician assistants, or a pharmacist acting within the scope of a
specified existing law relating to pharmacists to use a
self-screening tool that will identify patient risk factors for the
use of self-administered hormonal contraceptives by a patient, and,
after an appropriate prior examination, to prescribe, furnish, or
dispense, as applicable, self-administered hormonal contraceptives to
the patient. The bill would authorize blood pressure, weight,
height, and patient health history to be self-reported using the
self-screening tool.



THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 2242.2 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   2242.2.  Notwithstanding any other law, a physician and surgeon, a
registered nurse acting in accordance with Section 2725.2, a
certified nurse-midwife acting within the scope of Section 2746.51, a
nurse practitioner acting within the scope of Section 2836.1, a
physician assistant acting within the scope of Section 3502.1, and a
pharmacist acting within the scope of Section 4052.3 may use a
self-screening tool that will identify patient risk factors for the
use of self-administered hormonal contraceptives by a patient, and,
after an appropriate prior examination, prescribe, furnish, or
dispense, as applicable, self-administered hormonal contraceptives to
the patient. Blood pressure, weight, height, and patient health
history may be self-reported using the self-screening tool that
identifies patient risk factors.