BILL NUMBER: AB 2409	CHAPTERED  09/27/04

	CHAPTER  807
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 27, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 27, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 25, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 23, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Yee and Bates

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2004

   An act to add Section 1261.6 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to clinical laboratory scientists.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2409, Yee.  Clinical laboratory scientists.
   Existing law provides for licensing and regulation of clinical
laboratories and various associated professions by the State
Department of Health Services.  Existing law authorizes the
department to issue a clinical laboratory scientist's or a limited
laboratory scientist's license to persons meeting certain
qualifications.  Existing law authorizes the department to issue
limited clinical laboratory scientist's licenses in chemistry,
microbiology, toxicology, histocompatibility, immunohematology,
genetic molecular biology, cytogenetics, or other areas of laboratory
specialty or subspecialty when determined to be necessary by the
department.  Existing law generally requires a baccalaureate or an
equivalent or higher degree in order to meet the qualification
requirements for these licenses, with certain exceptions.
   This bill would authorize the department to issue a limited
clinical laboratory scientist's license in cytogenetics to any person
with a minimum of 7 years of work experience in this state as a
cytogenetic technologist who provides evidence of satisfactory
performance on a written examination administered by the National
Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel on or before December
31, 1991, in the specialty of cytogenetics, and who meets the federal
regulatory requirements for personnel performing high-complexity
testing.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 1261.6 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   1261.6.  The department may issue a limited clinical laboratory
scientist's license in cytogenetics to any person with a minimum of
seven years of work experience in this state as a cytogenetic
technologist who provides evidence of satisfactory performance on a
written examination administered by the National Credentialing Agency
for Laboratory Personnel on or before December 31, 1991, in the
specialty of cytogenetics, and who meets the federal regulatory
requirements for personnel performing high-complexity testing.