Bill Text: CA AB996 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Department of Consumer Affairs: continuing education: conflict-of-interest policy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-08-17 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Roth. [AB996 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB996-Amended.html
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Amended
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Assembly
March 27, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 996
| Introduced by Assembly Member Low |
February 15, 2023 |
An act to add Section 36 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 996, as amended, Low.
Department of Consumer Affairs: continuing education: conflict-of-interest policy.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of professions and vocations by entities within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Under existing law, several of these entities may require licensees to satisfy continuing education course requirements, including, among others, licensed physicians and surgeons licensed by the Medical Board of California and certified public accountants and public accountants licensed by the California Board of Accountancy.
This bill would require those entities to develop and maintain a conflict-of-interest policy that, at minimum, discourages the qualification of any continuing education course if the provider of that course has an economic interest in a commercial product or enterprise directly or indirectly promoted in that course.
course and requires conflicts to be disclosed at the beginning of each continuing education course.
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 36 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:36.
(a) Any entity listed in Section 101 that is responsible for approving continuing education providers or courses shall develop and maintain a conflict-of-interest policy in accordance with subdivision (b).(b) The conflict-of-interest policy required by this section shall, at a minimum, discourage do both of the following:
(1) Discourage
the qualification of any continuing education course if the provider of that course has an economic interest in a commercial product or enterprise directly or indirectly promoted in that course.
(2) Require conflicts to be disclosed at the beginning of each continuing education course.
