Bill Text: CA AB2496 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Foster family agencies and noncustodial adoption agencies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 403, Statutes of 2024. [AB2496 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2496-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  March 18, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2496

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Introduced by Assembly Member Low

February 13, 2024

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An act to amend Section 1647.20 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2496, as amended, Low. Deep sedation and general anesthesia. Dentistry: oral conscious sedation.

Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, establishes the Dental Board of California for the licensure and regulation of dentists and dental assistants. Existing law provides that a dentist who desires to administer, or order the administration of, oral conscious sedation for adult patients, who does not hold a general anesthesia permit and a conscious sedation permit, and has not been certified by the board to administer oral conscious sedation to minor patients, as specified, is required to register with the board, as specified. In this regard, existing law requires the dentist to, among other things, submit evidence showing that they satisfy one of specified educational or experience criteria, including satisfactory completion of a periodontics or general practice residency or other advanced education in a general dentistry program approved by the board.

This bill would authorize a dentist to satisfy that requirement by submitting evidence showing satisfactory completion of a pediatric dental residency program approved by the board.

Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, establishes the Dental Board of California for the licensure and regulation of dentists and dental assistants. That law regulates the use of deep sedation and general anesthesia in dental procedures, including the requirement that a dentist possess a general anesthesia permit issued by the board in order to administer or order the administration of deep sedation or general anesthesia on an outpatient basis for dental patients.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to deep sedation and general anesthesia.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 1647.20 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

1647.20.

 A dentist who desires to administer, or order the administration of, oral conscious sedation for adult patients, who does not hold a general anesthesia permit, as provided in Sections 1646.1 and 1646.2, does not hold a conscious sedation permit, as provided in Sections 1647.2 and 1647.3, and has not been certified by the board, pursuant to Section 1647.12, to administer oral conscious sedation to minor patients, shall register his or her their name with the board on a registration form prescribed by the board. The dentist shall submit the registration fee and evidence showing that he or she satisfies they satisfy any of the following requirements:

(a) Satisfactory completion of a postgraduate program in oral and maxillofacial surgery approved by either the Commission on Dental Accreditation or a comparable organization approved by the board.

(b) Satisfactory completion of a periodontics pediatric dental, periodontics, or general practice residency or other advanced education in a general dentistry program approved by the board.

(c) Satisfactory completion of a board-approved educational program on oral medications and sedation.

(d) For an applicant who has been using oral conscious sedation in connection with the treatment of adult patients, submission of documentation as required by the board of 10 cases of oral conscious sedation satisfactorily performed by the applicant on adult patients in any three-year period ending no later than December 31, 2005.

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to deep sedation and general anesthesia.