Bill Text: CA SB797 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board: transactions and use tax.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-10-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 653, Statutes of 2017. [SB797 Detail]

Download: California-2017-SB797-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  May 26, 2017

Amended  IN  Senate  April 17, 2017

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 797

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Introduced by Senator Hill

February 17, 2017

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An act to amend Section 2876 Sections 2876 and 2894 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 797, as amended, Hill. The Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians: vocational nursing: discipline.

Existing

(1) Existing law establishes the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of vocational nurses. Existing law requires the board to, among other things, select an executive officer. Existing law requires the board to discipline a licensee whose default has been entered or who has been heard by the board and found guilty by, among other methods, revoking his or her license.

This bill would require the board to delegate to the executive officer the authority to adopt a decision entered by default and a stipulation for surrender of a license.

(2) Existing law establishes the Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund in the State Treasury, and requires all money in that fund be used to carry out the Vocational Nursing Practice Act, including promoting nursing education, the Psychiatric Technicians Law, and for the refund of license fees or other moneys paid into the Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund.

This bill would specify that moneys in the Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund shall be used upon appropriation of the Legislature.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 2876 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

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 (a) The board shall discipline the holder of any license, whose default has been entered or who has been heard by the board and found guilty, by any of the following methods:

(1) Suspending judgment.

(2) Placing him or her upon probation.

(3) Suspending his or her right to practice vocational nursing for a period not exceeding one year.

(4) Revoking his or her license.

(5) Taking such other action in relation to disciplining him or her as the board in its discretion may deem proper.

(b) The board shall delegate to its executive officer the authority to adopt a decision entered by default and a stipulation for surrender of a license.

SEC. 2.

 Section 2894 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

2894.

 (a) All money in the Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund shall be used used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to carry out this chapter, including the promotion of nursing education in this state, and Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 4500), and for the refund, in accordance with law, of license fees or other moneys paid into the Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund under the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 4500).

(b) Claims against the Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians Fund shall be audited by the Controller, and shall be paid by the Treasurer upon warrants drawn by the Controller.

(c)This section shall become operative on July 1, 2016.