Bill Text: CA AB2487 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Physicians and surgeons: continuing education: opiate-dependent patient treatment and management.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 301, Statutes of 2018. [AB2487 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB2487-Enrolled.html

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Enrolled  August 24, 2018

Passed  IN  Senate  August 20, 2018

Passed  IN  Assembly  August 23, 2018

Amended  IN  Senate  August 06, 2018

Amended  IN  Senate  June 18, 2018

Amended  IN  Assembly  May 17, 2018

Amended  IN  Assembly  April 26, 2018

Amended  IN  Assembly  April 16, 2018

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2487

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Introduced by Assembly Member McCarty
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Waldron)

February 14, 2018

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An act to add Section 2190.6 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2487, McCarty. Physicians and surgeons: continuing education: opiate-dependent patient treatment and management.

Existing state law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs. The board is responsible for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons, and is required by the act to adopt and administer standards for the continuing education of those physicians and surgeons. Existing law requires all physicians and surgeons to complete a mandatory continuing education course on pain management and the treatment of terminally ill and dying patients, as provided.

Existing federal law, the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act of 2016, requires physicians and surgeons who dispense narcotic drugs for patient treatment to obtain a separate registration from the United States Attorney General. The United States Drug Enforcement Administration, within the federal Office of the Attorney General, administers the registration and requires physicians and surgeons to renew that registration at specified intervals. A physician and surgeon qualifies for a waiver of the registration if he or she is licensed under state law and completes at least one specified training, such as 8 hours of training in the treatment and management of opiate-dependent patients.

This bill would authorize a physician and surgeon to complete a one-time continuing education course on opiate-dependent patient treatment and management, as specified, as an alternative to the mandatory continuing education course on pain management and the treatment of terminally ill and dying patients.

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.

 Section 2190.6 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:

2190.6.

 (a) As an alternative to Section 2190.5, a physician and surgeon may complete a one-time continuing education course of 12 credit hours in the subjects of treatment and management of opiate-dependent patients, including eight hours of training in buprenorphine treatment, or other similar medicinal treatment, for opioid use disorders.

(b) A physician and surgeon who meets the requirements, as determined by the board, of a “qualifying physician” under clause (ii) of subparagraph (G) of paragraph (2) of subsection (g) of Section 823 of Title 21 of the United States Code, the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-198), as that clause read on January 1, 2018, shall be deemed to have met the requirements of subdivision (a).

(c) A physician and surgeon who chooses to comply with this section as an alternative to Section 2190.5 shall complete the requirements of this section by his or her next license renewal date.

(d) The board shall determine whether a physician and surgeon has met the requirements of this section.