Bill Text: CA AB1253 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Optometry: license: retired volunteer service designation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-07-16 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 125, Statutes of 2015. [AB1253 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB1253-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1253 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 125
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE JULY 16, 2015
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR JULY 16, 2015
PASSED THE SENATE JUNE 29, 2015
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY JULY 2, 2015
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 3, 2015
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 8, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Steinorth
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
An act to amend Section 3151.1 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to optometry.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1253, Steinorth. Optometry: license: retired volunteer service
designation.
The Optometry Practice Act provides for the licensure and
regulation of the practice of optometry by the State Board of
Optometry and makes a violation of the act a crime. The act requires
the board to issue, upon application and payment of a specified fee,
a retired license to an optometrist with a current and active
license, and prohibits the holder of a retired license from engaging
in the practice of optometry.
The act requires the board to issue a license with retired
volunteer service designation to an optometrist who holds a retired
license or a license that is current and active upon application and
payment of a specified fee if the applicant certifies that he or she
has completed the required continuing education hours. The act
requires the applicant for a license with retired volunteer service
designation to, among other things, certify that the sole purpose of
the license with retired volunteer service designation is to provide
voluntary, unpaid optometric services at health fairs, vision
screenings, and public service eye programs.
This bill would recast those provisions to require the board to
issue, upon application and payment of a specified fee, a license
with retired volunteer service designation to an optometrist who
holds a retired license or a license that was issued, or that has
expired and has gone unrenewed, for specified periods, including over
5 years, if that licensee meets specified requirements. The bill
would also require an applicant for a license with retired volunteer
service designation whose retired license had been issued, or whose
license had been expired, more than 3, but less than 5, years ago to
certify on the application that he or she has completed, an
additional 50 hours of formal continuing education coursework. By
expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a
state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 3151.1 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
3151.1. (a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment
of the fee described in Section 3152, a license with retired
volunteer service designation to an optometrist who satisfies any of
the following:
(1) The applicant holds any of the following:
(A) A retired license issued within the last three years.
(B) A license that has not been renewed and has expired within the
last three years.
(C) A license that is current and active.
(2) The applicant holds either of the following, and the applicant
certifies on the application that he or she has completed an
additional 50 hours of formal continuing optometric education
coursework:
(A) A retired license issued more than three, but less than five,
years ago.
(B) A license that has not been renewed and has expired more than
three, but less than five, years ago.
(3) The applicant holds either of the following, and satisfies the
requirements set forth in subdivisions (a) to (d), inclusive, of
Section 3147.6:
(A) A retired license issued more than five years ago.
(B) A license that has not been renewed and has expired more than
five years ago.
(b) The board shall not issue a license pursuant to this section
to an applicant whose application would be subject to denial pursuant
to Section 480.
(c) The applicant shall certify on the application that the sole
purpose of the license with retired volunteer service designation is
to provide voluntary, unpaid optometric services at health fairs,
vision screenings, and public service eye programs.
(d) The holder of the retired license with volunteer service
designation shall submit a biennial renewal application, with a fee
fixed by this chapter and certify on each renewal that the required
number of continuing education hours pursuant to Section 3059 were
completed, and certify that the sole purpose of the retired license
with volunteer service designation is to provide voluntary, unpaid
services as described in subdivision (c). Pursuant to Section 3146,
the license expires at midnight on the last day of the licenseholder'
s birth month every two years if not renewed.
SEC. 2. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.
