Bill Text: CA AB1577 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health facilities and clinics: clinical placements: nursing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 680, Statutes of 2024. [AB1577 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1577-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 27, 2023

Amended  IN  Assembly  April 17, 2023

Amended  IN  Assembly  March 23, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1577

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Introduced by Assembly Member Low

February 17, 2023

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An act to add Section 1271.2 to Article 1 (commencing with Section 127750) to Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1577, as amended, Low. General acute care hospitals: clinical placements: nursing.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime.

Existing law establishes the Department of Health Care Access and Information in the Health and Welfare Agency to oversee health planning and health policy research, such as the health care workforce research and data center. Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nurses within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing.

This bill would require a general acute care hospital that is located in the service area of a community college with an approved school of nursing to make quarterly reports to the department Department of Health Care Access and Information and the Board of Registered Nurses of the number of nursing clinical placements filled by the hospital for that quarter, and would require the department to categorize the information, as specified, and post it on its internet website. The bill would require a community college with postsecondary educational students in an approved school of nursing or an approved program of nursing education, as defined, to notify the department, Department of Health Care Access and Information and the Board of Registered Nursing, by March 1 of each year, of the number of clinical placements the community college will require for the next academic year. The bill would require a general acute care hospital to meet the clinical placement needs of community colleges or be subject to a fine or loss of license. fine.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Article 1 (commencing with Section 127750) is added to Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

Article  1. Nursing Clinical Placements

127750.

 (a) A general acute care hospital that is located in the service area of a community college with an approved school of nursing shall report to the department and the Board of Registered Nursing, on a quarterly basis, the number of nursing clinical placements filled by the hospital for that quarter. The department shall categorize the information by hospital, school type, school name, and clinical placement location. The department shall post the information on its internet website.

(b) By March 1 of each year, a community college with postsecondary educational students enrolled in an approved school of nursing or an approved program of nursing education, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 2786 of the Business and Professions Code, shall notify the department and the Board of Registered Nursing of the number of clinical placements the community college will require for the next academic year.

(c) A general acute care hospital that is located in the service area of a community college with an approved school of nursing shall meet the clinical placement needs of community colleges with postsecondary educational students enrolled in an approved school of nursing or an approved program of nursing education. A hospital that fails to meet those placement needs may be subject to a fine.

SECTION 1.Section 1271.2 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

1271.2.

(a)A general acute care hospital shall report to the department, on a quarterly basis, the number of nursing clinical placements filled by the hospital for that quarter. The department shall categorize the information by hospital, school type, school name, and clinical placement location. The department shall post the information on its internet website.

(b)By March 1 of each year, a community college with postsecondary educational students enrolled in an approved school of nursing or an approved program of nursing education, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 2786 of the Business and Professions Code, shall notify the department of the number of clinical placements the community college will require for the next academic year.

(c)A general acute care hospital shall meet the clinical placement needs of community colleges with postsecondary educational students enrolled in an approved school of nursing or an approved program of nursing education. A hospital that fails to meet those placement needs may be subject to a fine or loss of licensure. Section 1290 shall not apply with respect to this section.