Bill Text: CA AB1896 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Tribal health programs: health care practitioners.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 119, Statutes of 2012. [AB1896 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1896-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1896	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act to amend the heading of Article 10 (commencing with Section
710) of Chapter 1 of Division 2 of, and to add Section 719 to, the
Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1896, as introduced, Chesbro. Tribal health programs: health
care practitioners.
   Under existing federal law, licensed health professionals employed
by a tribal health program are required to be exempt, if licensed in
any state, from the licensing requirements of the state in which the
tribal health program performs specified services. A tribal health
program is defined as an Indian tribe or tribal organization that
operates any health program, service, function, activity, or facility
funded, in whole or part, by the Indian Health Service.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health
care practitioners by various healing arts boards.
   This bill would codify that federal requirement by specifying that
a health care practitioner employed by a tribal health program is
exempt from any state licensing requirement where the tribal health
program performs specified services.
   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.  The heading of Article 10 (commencing with Section 710)
of Chapter 1 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:

      Article 10.  Federal Personnel  and Tribal Health Programs



  SEC. 2.  Section 719 is added to the Business and Professions Code,
to read:
   719.  (a) A health care practitioner employed by a tribal health
program, as defined in Section 1603 of Title 25 of the United States
Code, shall be exempt from any licensing requirement described in
this division where the tribal health program performs the services
described in the contract or compact of the tribal health program
under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25
U.S.C. Sec. 450 et seq.).
   (b) For purposes of this section, "health care practitioner" means
any person who engages in acts that are the subject of licensure or
regulation under this division or any initiative act referred to in
this division.