Bill Text: CA AB1493 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Clinics.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB1493 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB1493-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1493

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Introduced by Assembly Member Patterson

February 17, 2017

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An act to amend Section 1200 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to clinics.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1493, as introduced, Patterson. Clinics.

Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health is responsible for the licensing and regulation of clinics, defined as an organized outpatient health facility that provides direct specified advice, services, or treatment to patients who remain less than 24 hours, and that may also provide diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients in the home, as specified.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 1200 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

1200.

 (a) As used in this chapter, “clinic” means an organized outpatient health facility that provides direct medical, surgical, dental, optometric, or podiatric advice, services, or treatment to patients who remain less than 24 hours, and that may also provide diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients in the home as an incident to care provided at the clinic facility. Nothing in this section shall be construed to This section does not prohibit the provision of nursing services in a clinic licensed pursuant to this chapter. In no case shall a clinic be deemed to be A clinic is not a health facility subject to the provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250). A place, establishment, or institution that solely provides advice, counseling, information, or referrals on the maintenance of health or on the means and measures to prevent or avoid sickness, disease, or injury, where when that advice, counseling, information, or referral does not constitute the practice of medicine, surgery, dentistry, optometry, or podiatry, shall not be deemed a clinic for purposes of this chapter.

(b) For purposes of this chapter:

(1) “Primary care clinics” means all the types of clinics specified in subdivision (a) of Section 1204, including community clinics and free clinics.

(2) “Specialty clinics” means all the types of clinics specified in subdivision (b) of Section 1204, including surgical clinics, chronic dialysis clinics, and rehabilitation clinics.

(3) “Clinic corporation” means a nonprofit organization that operates one or more primary care clinics, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1204, that are required to be licensed under Section 1205, one or more mobile health care units required to be licensed or approved pursuant to the Mobile Health Care Services Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 1765.101)) and operated as primary care clinics, or one or more primary care clinics and one or more mobile health care units.

(4) “Department” means the Licensing and Certification Division of the State Department of Public Health, or its successor.

(5) “Centralized applications unit” means the centralized applications unit in the Licensing and Certification Division of the department, or a successor entity.