Bill Text: CA SB1067 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Healing arts: expedited licensure process: medically underserved area or population.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-23 - In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. [SB1067 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1067-Amended.html
|
Amended
IN
Senate
May 16, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1067
| Introduced by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas |
February 12, 2024 |
An act to add Section 871 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1067, as amended, Smallwood-Cuevas.
Healing arts: expedited licensure process: medically underserved area or population.
Existing law establishes various boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs to license and regulate various health professionals. Existing law requires specified boards to expedite the licensure process of an applicant who can demonstrate that they intend to provide abortions within their scope of practice and specifies the documentation an applicant is required to provide to demonstrate their intent.
This bill would require each healing arts board, as defined, the Board of Behavioral Sciences, the Board of Registered Nursing, the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California, the California State Board of Pharmacy, the Dental Board of
California, the Dental Hygiene Board of California, and the Physician Assistant Board to develop a process to expedite the licensure process by giving priority review status to the application of an applicant for a license who demonstrates that they intend to practice in a medically underserved area or serve a medically underserved population, as defined. The bill would authorize an applicant for a license to demonstrate their intent to practice in a medically underserved area or serve a medically underserved population by providing proper documentation, including, but not limited to, a letter from an employer, located in a medically underserved area or which serves a medically underserved population, indicating that the applicant has accepted employment and stating the start date.
employer that includes prescribed information. The bill would provide that compliance with the bill does not require the department or any of the boards to open a regulatory or rulemaking process to change their licensee application process and would deem a board to be in compliance if it includes a supplemental letter or cover statement to their application explaining the availability of the expedited licensure process and indicating what an applicant’s employer would need to provide to the board for the applicant to qualify for the priority review status.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 871 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:871.
(a)(b) An applicant for a license may demonstrate their intent to practice in a medically underserved area or serve a medically underserved population by providing proper documentation, including, but not limited to, a letter from an employer, located in a medically underserved area or which serves a medically underserved population, indicating that the applicant has accepted employment and stating the
start date. employer that does all of the following:
(1) Indicating the employer is located in a medically underserved area or indicating the employer serves a medically underserved population and identifying which is applicable.
(2) Indicating that the applicant has accepted employment.
(3) Stating the applicant’s proposed start date.
(c)As used in this section, “healing arts board” means any board, division, or examining committee in the Department of Consumer Affairs that licenses or certifies health professionals.
(c) Compliance with this section does not require the Department of Consumer Affairs or any of the boards listed in subdivision (a) to open a regulatory or rulemaking process to change their licensee application process. A board shall be deemed to be in compliance with this section if it includes a supplemental letter or cover statement to their application explaining the availability of this expedited licensure process and indicating what an applicant’s employer would need to provide to the board for the applicant to qualify for the priority review status.
