Bill Text: CA AB830 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Clinical laboratories.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB830 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB830-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 830	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Holden

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to  amend Section 1224 of   add
Section 1224.3 to  the Business and Professions Code, relating
to clinical laboratories.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 830, as amended, Holden. Clinical laboratories.
   Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and
regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory
personnel by the State Department of Public Health.  Existing
law, the Administrative Procedure Act, establishes the requirements
for the adoption, publication, review, and implementation of
regulations by state agencies.  Existing law allows the
State Department of Public Health to adopt, amend, or repeal
regulations necessary for the administration of clinical
laboratories.  Existing law makes a violation of the provisions
governing clinical laboratories and clinical laboratory personnel a
crime.  
   This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to
promulgate regulations to require hospitals and health care
facilities that employ clinical laboratory scientists and medical
laboratory technicians to provide training to those individuals and
any other employees charged with supervising those individuals on
specified subject matters. Since a violation of the provisions
governing clinical laboratory technology is a misdemeanor under
existing law, this bill would expand the definition of a crime,
thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.  
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
 
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program:  no
  yes  .


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 1224.3 is added to the 
 Business and Professions Code   , to read:  
   1224.3.  The department shall promulgate regulations on or before
January 1, 2015, that require any facility operating a clinical
laboratory to provide training to clinical laboratory scientists,
medical laboratory technicians, and any individuals who are charged
with direct and responsible supervision of either a clinical
laboratory scientist or a medical laboratory technician on the
following subject matters:
   (a) The specific tests that a medical laboratory technician is
authorized to perform.
   (b) The specific tests that only a clinical laboratory scientist
is authorized to perform.
   (c) The extent to which a clinical laboratory scientist is
required to direct, supervise, and approve or endorse the work of a
medical laboratory technician.
   (d) The extent to which a medical laboratory technician is
authorized to report test results to doctors, nurses, or other health
care professionals prior to having a clinical laboratory scientist
review and verify those results. 
   SEC. 2.    No reimbursement is required by this act
pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local
agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a
new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or
changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of
Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a
crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the
California Constitution.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 1224 of the Business and
Professions Code is amended to read:
   1224.  The department may, pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing
with Section 11340) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code,
adopt, amend, or repeal any regulations it considers necessary for
the administration or enforcement of this chapter.