BILL NUMBER: AB 3023	CHAPTERED  08/30/04

	CHAPTER  351
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 30, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 27, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 12, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 12, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 9, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 10, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 1, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Matthews
   (Principal coauthor:  Assembly Member Nakanishi)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2004

   An act to add Section 683 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 3023, Matthews.  Disciplinary actions:  reporting.
   Existing law establishes various boards that license and regulate
healing arts practitioners.  Under existing law, these boards are
authorized to take disciplinary action against their licensees for
unprofessional conduct that may result in the revocation or
suspension of the practitioner's license.
   This bill would require these boards to report, within 10 working
days, specified information to the State Department of Health
Services, including the revocation or suspension of a practitioner's
license.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 683 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   683.  (a) A board shall report, within 10 working days, to the
State Department of Health Services the name and license number of a
person whose license has been revoked, suspended, surrendered, made
inactive by the licensee, or placed in another category that
prohibits the licensee from practicing his or her profession.  The
purpose of the reporting requirement is to prevent reimbursement by
the state for Medi-Cal and Denti-Cal services provided after the
cancellation of a provider's professional license.
   (b) "Board," as used in this section, means the Dental Board of
California, the Medical Board of California, the Board of Psychology,
the State Board of Optometry, the California State Board of
Pharmacy, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, and the State
Board of Chiropractic Examiners.