Bill Text: CA AB381 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Teacher credentialing: services credential with a specialization in health: occupational and physical therapists.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB381 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 381
| Introduced by Assembly Member Blanca Rubio |
February 02, 2023 |
An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 44267 of the Education Code, relating to teacher credentialing.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 381, as amended, Blanca Rubio.
Teacher credentialing: services credential with a specialization in health: occupational and physical therapists.
Existing law sets forth the minimum requirements for a services credential with a specialization in health. Existing law authorizes the holder of a services credential with a specialization in health to perform, at all grade levels, health services approved by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Existing law specifies that services as an occupational therapist or physical therapist are not health services for this purpose.
This bill would delete the provision specifying that services as an occupational therapist or physical therapist are not health services for purposes of a services credential with a specialization in health.
This bill would require the commission, until January 1, 2029, to issue a services credential with a specialization in health to an appropriately licensed occupational
therapist or physical therapist who meets certain requirements and would authorize authorize, but would not require, an occupational therapist or a physical therapist to apply for a services credential with a specialization in health, as provided. The bill would require the commission to provide a report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature by January 1, 2028, on the number of service credentials issued pursuant to these provisions with a specialization in health authorizing service in occupational therapy or physical therapy that have been issued.
therapy, as specified.
The bill would also make various nonsubstantive changes.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 44267 of the Education Code is amended to read:44267.
(a) The minimum requirements for a services credential with a specialization in health are:(1) Five years, or its equivalent, of college or university education, or five years of professional preparation approved by the commission.
(2) Possession of a valid license, certificate, or registration, appropriate to the health service to be designated, issued by the California agency authorized by law to license, certificate, or register persons to practice that health service in California.
(3) Such additional requirements as may be
prescribed by the commission.
(b) The services credential with a specialization in health shall authorize the holder to perform, at all grade levels, the health service approved by the commission as designated on the credential. Services as an audiometrist are not health services within the meaning of this section.
(c) (1) The commission shall issue a services credential with a specialization in health to an appropriately licensed occupational therapist or physical therapist as prescribed in subdivisions (a) and (b).
(2) (A) An occupational therapist or physical therapist is authorized
authorized, but not required, to apply for a services credential with a specialization in health.
(B) The Legislature finds and declares that special circumstances warrant an authorization, but not a statutory requirement, for a credential with a specialization in health authorizing service in occupational therapy or physical therapy, as occupational therapists and physical therapists are the only professionals providing health services in schools not eligible to earn a credential, despite meeting the education and licensure requirements for this credential. This shall not establish a precedent for any other credential that is authorized, but not statutorily required, for a school employee to hold for their assignment.
(3) The
commission shall provide a report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, by January 1, 2028, on the number of service credentials issued pursuant to this subdivision with a specialization in health authorizing service in occupational therapy or physical therapy that have been issued. therapy, with the intent to identify the overall demand for a credential and to identify if such assignments should require a commission-issued credential after January 1, 2028.
(4)An occupational therapist or physical therapist holding a valid license pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) shall be considered appropriately authorized for purposes of assignment monitoring pursuant to this chapter.
(d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2029, and as of that date is repealed.
SEC. 2.
Section 44267 is added to the Education Code, to read:44267.
(a) The minimum requirements for a services credential with a specialization in health are:(1) Five years, or its equivalent, of college or university education, or five years of professional preparation approved by the commission.
(2) Possession of a valid license, certificate, or registration, appropriate to the health service to be designated, issued by the California agency authorized by law to license, certificate, or register persons to practice that health service in California.
(3) Such additional requirements as may be prescribed by the commission.
(b) The services credential with a specialization in health shall authorize the holder to perform, at all grade levels, the health service approved by the commission as designated on the credential. Services as an audiometrist are not health services within the meaning of this section.
(c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2029.
