Bill Text: CA AB2856 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Board of Psychology.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-05 - Referred to Com. on B. & P. [AB2856 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2856-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2856
| Introduced by Committee on Business and Professions (Assembly Members Low (Chair), Arambula, Chiu, Eggman, Gipson, Gloria, Grayson, Holden, Irwin, Mullin, and Ting) |
February 21, 2020 |
An act to amend Sections 2920, 2922, and 2933 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2856, as introduced, Committee on Business and Professions.
Board of Psychology.
Existing law, the Psychology Licensing Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of psychology and provides for the enforcement and administration of the law by the Board of Psychology, which consists of 9 members. Existing law requires the Governor to appoint 2 public members and 5 licensed members of the board and requires the Senate Rules Committee and Speaker of the Assembly to each appoint a public member. Existing law requires the board to make all expenditures to carry out the law. Existing law, on January 1, 2021, repeals the provisions providing for the enforcement and regulation of the law by the Board of Psychology and requiring the board to make all expenditures to carry out the law.
This bill would specify that each appointing authority has the authority to remove from office at any time any member of the board
appointed by that authority. The bill would make other changes to the provisions requiring the board to enforce and administer the law and authorizing the board to make expenditures to carry out the law, including that authorized expenditures be necessary to carry out those provisions.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 2920 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:2920.
(a) The Board of Psychology shall enforce and administer this chapter. The board shall consist of nine members, four of whom shall be public members.(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2021, and as of that date is repealed.
(c) Notwithstanding any other law, the repeal of this section renders shall render the board subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature.
SEC. 2.
Section 2922 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:2922.
(a) In appointing the members of the board, except the public members, the Governor shall use The
(b) The Governor shall appoint two of the public members and the five licensed members of the board qualified as provided in Section 2923. The Senate Rules Committee and the Speaker of the Assembly shall each appoint a public member, and their initial appointment shall be made to fill, respectively, the first and second public member vacancies which occur on or after January 1, 1983.
(c) Each appointing authority shall have the authority to remove from office at any time any member of the board appointed by that authority.
SEC. 3.
Section 2933 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:2933.
(a) Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board shall employ and shall make available to the board within the limits of the funds received by the board all personnel necessary to carry out this chapter. The board may employ, exempt from the State Civil Service Act, an executive officer to the Board of Psychology. The board shall make all expenditures that are necessary to carry out this chapter. The board may accept contributions to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2021, and as of that date is repealed.
