Bill Text: CA AB670 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Pharmacy Law: incentive payments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB670 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB670-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Pharmacy Law: incentive payments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB670 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB670-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 670 INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Atkins FEBRUARY 21, 2013 An act to amend Section 500 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 670, as introduced, Atkins. Healing arts: reproduction of board records. Existing law establishes the Medical Board of California, the Dental Board of California, and the California State Board of Pharmacy to regulate the practice of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy, respectively, including licensing professionals in those fields. Existing law provides that whenever the register or book of registration of one of those entities is destroyed by fire or other public calamity, the board, whose duty it is to keep the register or book, may reproduce it so that there may be shown as nearly as possible the record existing in the original at the time of destruction. This bill would provide that acceptable forms for the reproduction include the portable document format (PDF) or other secure electronic format. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 500 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 500. Whenever the register or book of registration of the Medical Board of California, the Dental Board ofDental ExaminersCalifornia , or the California State Board of Pharmacy is destroyed by fire or other public calamity, the board, whose duty it is to keep the register or book, may reproduce it so that there may be shown as nearly as possible the record existing in the original at the time of destruction. Acceptable forms for the reproduction include the portable document format (PDF) or other secure electronic format.