Bill Text: CA AB1328 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 1328 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Clinical laboratories.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1328 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1328-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1328	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Pan

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

    An act to amend Section 127 of the Business and
Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations. 
 An act to add Section 1261.3 to the Business and  
Professions Code, relating to clinical laboratories. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1328, as amended, Pan.  Professions and vocations.
  Clinical laboratories. 
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of 
various professions and vocations by boards and bureaus within the
Department of Consumer Affairs and places the department under the
control of the Director of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes
the director to request specified reports from these boards 
 clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public
Health. Existing law authorizes the department to issue a clinical
laboratory scientist's license to an applicant who is the lawful
holder of a baccalaureate or an equivalent or higher degree and who
meets specified training and experience requirements, subject to the
payment of a licensing fee  .
   This bill would  make nonsubstantive, technical changes to
that provision   ,  notwithstanding those
provisions, authorize the department to issue a clinical laboratory
scientist's license to an applicant who completes at least 2 years of
full-time employment as a clinical laboratory scientist at a CLIA
certified laboratory, who possesses a baccalaureate or an equivalent
or higher degree from an accredited institution, and who passes a
national examination approved by the department, subject to the
payment of the requisite licensing fee  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 1261.3 is added to the 
 Business and Professions Code   , to read:  
   1261.3.  Notwithstanding Section 1261, the department may issue a
clinical laboratory scientist's license to a person who meets all of
the following requirements:
   (a) Completes at least two years of full-time employment as a
clinical laboratory scientist at a CLIA certified laboratory.
   (b) Possesses a baccalaureate or an equivalent or higher degree
from an accredited institution.
   (c) Passes a national examination approved by the department.
   (d) Applies for the license on forms provided by the department.
   (e) Pays the fee for licensure specified in Section 1300. 

  SECTION 1.    Section 127 of the Business and
Professions Code is amended to read:
   127.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the
director may require reports from any board, commission, examining
committee, or other similarly constituted agency within the
department as he or she deems reasonably necessary on any phase of
their operations.