Bill Text: CA SB1045 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Metal theft: damages.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-09-19 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 393, Statutes of 2012. [SB1045 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1045-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1045	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Emmerson

                        FEBRUARY 6, 2012

   An act to amend Section 921 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1045, as introduced, Emmerson. Healing arts: disaster response.

   Existing law, the Health Care Professional Disaster Response Act,
makes certain findings with respect to the shortage of health care
practitioners in the event of a disaster and the potential use of
practitioners with lapsed or inactive licenses.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
findings.
   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 921 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   921.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following:
   (1) In times of national or state disasters, a shortage of
qualified health care practitioners may exist in areas throughout the
state where they are desperately required to respond to public
health emergencies.
   (2) Health care practitioners with lapsed or inactive licenses
could potentially serve in those areas where a shortage of qualified
health care practitioners exists  ,  if licensing
requirements were streamlined and fees curtailed.
   (b)  It   Therefore,   it  is
 , therefore,  the intent of the Legislature to
address these matters through the provisions of the Health Care
Professional Disaster Response Act.