Bill Text: CA SB52 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Regulatory boards: healing arts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB52 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB52-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 52	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Walters

                        DECEMBER 19, 2014

   An act to amend Section 104 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to regulatory boards.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 52, as introduced, Walters. 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 a licensee to
display his or her license or registration in the locality in which
he or she is treating patients and to make specified disclosures to
patients.
   This bill would make 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   these  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.                              
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