Bill Text: CA AB2183 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Nursing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB2183 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2183-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2183	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bocanegra

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 2842 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to vocational nursing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2183, as introduced, Bocanegra. Vocational nursing.
   Under the Vocational Nursing Practice Act, the Board of Vocational
Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians licenses and regulates
vocational nurses and psychiatric technicians. The act requires the
board to prepare and maintain a list of approved schools of
vocational nursing in this state. The act specifies requirements for
board members, including that one member be a licensed vocational
nurse or registered nurse having at least 5 years' experience as a
teacher or administrator in an accredited school of vocational
nursing.
   This bill would, instead, require that one member have that
teaching experience at a board-approved school.
   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.  Section 2842 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2842.  (a) Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the
United States and a resident of the State of California. The board
shall have the following composition:
   (1) Two members shall be duly licensed vocational nurses who have
been licensed for a period of not less than three years prior to
appointment.
   (2) Two members shall be licensed psychiatric technicians, each of
whom shall have had not less than five years' experience in a
psychiatric hospital, or in a psychiatric unit of a hospital licensed
by the State Department of Health Services, or a private institution
licensed by the State Department of Health Services.
   (3) One member shall be a licensed vocational nurse or registered
nurse who shall have had not less than five years' experience as a
teacher or administrator in  an accredited   a
board-approved  school of vocational nursing.
   (4) Six members shall be public members who are not licentiates of
the board or any other board under this division or of any board
referred to in Sections 1000 and 3600.
   (b) No person may serve as a member of the board for more than two
consecutive terms.
   (c) Per diem and expenses of members of the board who are licensed
psychiatric technicians shall be paid solely from revenues received
pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 4500) of Division 2.