Bill Text: CA AB2759 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Clinics and health facilities: nurses.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-15 - Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B. & P. [AB2759 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2759-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 2759 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Santiago |
February 16, 2018 |
An act to add Sections 1210 and 1264.5 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to nursing.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2759, as introduced, Santiago.
Clinics and health facilities: nurses.
Existing law provides for the regulation and licensure of clinics, as defined, and health facilities, as defined, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime.
This bill would prohibit clinics and health facilities that receive public funds from excluding students enrolled in a public community college associate degree prelicensure nursing program from clinical placement slots if the program has been approved by the Board of Registered Nursing, as specified. The bill would also prohibit clinics and health facilities from discriminating against a person because he or she has completed an associate degree nursing program instead of a baccalaureate degree nursing program. The bill would specify that a violation of these provisions is not a crime.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1210 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:1210.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the exclusion of students enrolled in public community college associate degree prelicensure nursing programs from clinical placement slots in a publicly funded clinic is against public policy.(b) A clinic that receives public funds shall not exclude students enrolled in a public community college associate degree prelicensure nursing program from clinical placement slots if the prelicensure nursing program has been approved by the Board of Registered Nursing pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 2785) of Chapter 6 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code.
(c) A clinic
shall not refuse to hire or employ a person, or bar or discharge a person from employment, or discriminate against a person in compensation or in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because that person has completed an associate degree nursing program and has not completed a baccalaureate degree nursing program.
(d) Notwithstanding Section 1235, a violation of this section is not a crime.
SEC. 2.
Section 1264.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:1264.5.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the exclusion of students enrolled in public community college associate degree prelicensure nursing programs from clinical placement slots in a publicly funded health facility is against public policy.(b) A health facility that receives public funds shall not exclude students enrolled in a public community college associate degree prelicensure nursing program from clinical placement slots if the prelicensure nursing program has been approved by the Board of Registered Nursing pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 2785) of Chapter 6 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code.
(c) A health facility shall not refuse to hire or employ a person, or bar or discharge a person from employment, or discriminate
against a person in compensation or in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because that person has completed an associate degree nursing program and has not completed a baccalaureate degree nursing program.
(d) Notwithstanding Section 1290, a violation of this section is not a crime.
