BILL NUMBER: AB 1760	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Galgiani

                        JANUARY 8, 2008

   An act to amend Section 4849 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to veterinary medicine.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1760, as introduced, Galgiani. Veterinary medicine:
examinations.
   Existing law, the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, provides for
the licensure and regulation of the practice of veterinary medicine.
Existing law requires the Veterinary Medical Board to ascertain, by
means of examination, the professional qualifications of applicants
for licensure to practice veterinary medicine and to issue a license
to every person whom it finds to be qualified. Existing law requires
that the examination consist of a licensing examination administered
on a national basis, a state board examination, and an examination
concerning the statutes and regulations of the act administered by
the board. Existing law requires that the complete examination be
given at least once each year.
   This bill would instead require that the complete examination be
given at least twice each year.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 4849 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   4849.  The complete examination shall be given at least 
once   twice  each year. It shall include all
 such   the  subjects  as 
 that  are ordinarily included in the curricula of
veterinary colleges in good standing and may include  such
  any  other subjects  as  
that  the board may by rule authorize and direct.