Bill Text: CA SB622 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Optometry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Assembly without further action. [SB622 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB622-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 622	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 2842 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to vocational nursing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 622, as introduced, Hernandez. Vocational nursing.
   The Vocational Nursing Practice Act provides for the licensure and
regulation of the practice of vocational nursing by the Board of
Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians within the Department
of Consumer Affairs. The act requires the board to consist of 11
members, including one member that is a licensed vocational nurse or
registered nurse who has had no less than 5 years' experience as a
teacher or administrator in an accredited school of vocational
nursing.
   This bill would require that the vocational nurse or registered
nurse's experience be in an accredited school of vocational nursing
approved by the board.
   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 2842 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2842.  (a) Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the
United States and a resident of the State of California. The board
shall have the following composition:
   (1) Two members shall be duly licensed vocational nurses who have
been licensed for a period of not less than three years prior to
appointment.
   (2) Two members shall be licensed psychiatric technicians, each of
whom shall have had not less than five years' experience in a
psychiatric hospital, or in a psychiatric unit of a hospital licensed
by the State Department of Health Services, or a private institution
licensed by the State Department of Health Services.
   (3) One member shall be a licensed vocational nurse or registered
nurse who shall have had not less than five years' experience as a
teacher or administrator in an accredited school of vocational
nursing  approved by the board  .
   (4) Six members shall be public members who are not licentiates of
the board or any other board under this division or of any board
referred to in Sections 1000 and 3600.
   (b) No person may serve as a member of the board for more than two
consecutive terms.
   (c) Per diem and expenses of members of the board who are licensed
psychiatric technicians shall be paid solely from revenues received
pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 4500) of Division 2.