Bill Text: CA SB623 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Senate Bill 623 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Public health: health workforce projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-09-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 450, Statutes of 2012. [SB623 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB623-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 623	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  450
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 30, 2012
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 23, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 7, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 21, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 21, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 25, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kehoe
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Atkins)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add and repeal Sections 128196 and 128197 of the Health
and Safety Code, relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 623, Kehoe. Public health: health workforce projects.
   Under existing law, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development approves, establishes minimum guidelines for, and
performs onsite visitations for specified types of evaluation of
health workforce projects. Existing law also requires the office to
collect and make public the data an approved project generates.
Existing law prohibits the office from approving a project for beyond
a specified period unless a specified determination is made.
   This bill would require the office to extend the duration of
Health Workforce Pilot Project No. 171 through January 1, 2014, to
provide the sponsors of the project an opportunity to achieve
publication of the data collected during the project in a
peer-reviewed journal, among other specified purposes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 128196 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   128196.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
   (a) The Access through Primary Care Project, known as Health
Workforce Pilot Project (HWPP) No. 171, was approved in 2007 to teach
new skills to nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, and
physician assistants, and to evaluate the safety and efficacy of
allowing nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, and physician
assistants to use these new skills to perform first trimester
aspiration abortions.
   (b) The study investigators from the University of California
find, from the data submitted to the office that trainees of the
project have achieved competency and safely perform first trimester
aspiration abortions using the new skills acquired in HWPP No. 171.
The study investigators intend to undergo additional peer review of
the data by submitting the results for publication in a nationally
recognized, peer-reviewed journal.
   (c) It is necessary to extend HWPP No. 171 to maintain the
competencies of clinicians trained to date and to authorize continued
training of new clinicians while the larger peer review process is
conducted, and because HWPP No. 171 is likely to increase the
availability of safe, early abortion care that is limited in many
areas of California.
   (d) It is the intent of the Legislature that HWPP No. 171 continue
without interruption.
   (e) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2014, deletes or extends
that date.
  SEC. 2.  Section 128197 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
   128197.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 128180, the office shall
extend the duration of the health workforce project regarding
clinicians known as Health Workforce Pilot Project No. 171 until
January 1, 2014, in order to provide the sponsors an opportunity to
achieve publication of the data in a peer-reviewed journal, to
maintain the competence of the clinicians trained during the course
of the project, and to authorize training of additional clinicians in
first trimester aspiration technique, as outlined in the project
application, as amended. The project shall continue to satisfy the
requirements of the office.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2014, deletes or extends
that date.