Bill Text: CA SB231 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 231 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Regulatory boards: healing arts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB231 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB231-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 231	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Emmerson

                        FEBRUARY 9, 2011

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 231, as introduced, Emmerson. 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 licensees to
display their license or registration in the locality in which they
are treating patients and to make specified disclosures to patients.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive, 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 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.