Bill Text: CA AB445 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Use of X-ray equipment: prohibition: exemptions.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB445 Detail]
Download: California-2009-AB445-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 445 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Salas
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
An act to amend Section 106955 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to radiological technologists.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 445, as introduced, Salas. Use of X-ray equipment: prohibition:
exemptions.
Existing law establishes various programs for the prevention of
disease and the promotion of health to be administered by the State
Department of Public Health, including, but not limited to, a program
for the certification and regulation of radiological technologists.
Existing law, with certain exceptions, prohibits a person from
operating or maintaining any X-ray fluoroscope, or other equipment or
apparatus employing roentgen rays, in the fitting of shoes or other
footwear or in the viewing of bones in the feet. Violation of these
provisions is a crime.
This bill would, in addition, exempt from this prohibition the use
of a mini C-arm digital radiography device in connection with the
diagnosis of bone fractures, in a licensed trauma center or an
emergency department of a licensed hospital, by an orthopedic
resident, an orthopedic nurse practitioner, or a physician assistant,
when under the direct or indirect supervision of a certified
radiological technologist.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 106955 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
106955. (a) No person shall operate or
maintain any X-ray fluoroscope, or other equipment or apparatus
employing roentgen rays, in the fitting of shoes or other footwear or
in the viewing of bones in the feet. This section
(b) Subdivision (a) shall not
apply to any licensed of the following:
(1) A licensed physician and
surgeon, podiatrist, chiropractor, or any person practicing a
licensed healing art, or any technician working under the direct and
immediate supervision of those persons. Any
(2) The use of a mini C-arm digital radiography device, that emits
short pulsed doses of radiation, in connection with the diagnosis of
bone fractures, in a licensed trauma center or an emergency
department of a licensed hospital, by an orthopedic resident, an
orthopedic nurse practitioner, or a physician assistant, when under
the direct or indirect supervision of a certified radiological
technologist. For the purposes of this paragraph, indirect
supervision does not require the continual presence of the certified
radiological technologist if the technologist is otherwise available
to provide guidance or answer questions.
(c) A person violating this
section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
