BILL NUMBER: AB 2600	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ma

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

    An act to amend Section 1797 of the Health and Safety
Code, relating to emergency medical services.   An act
to amend Section 2191 of the Business and Professions Code, relating
to medicine. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2600, as amended, Ma.  Emergency medical services.
  Medicine: licensing: continuing education
requirements.  
   Existing law requires the Medical Board of California to establish
continuing education requirements for physicians and surgeons, and
requires the board to consider including various courses in
determining its continuing education requirements.  
   This bill would, in addition, require the board to consider
including a continuing education course in the diagnosis and
treatment of hepatitis.  
   Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the
Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, authorizes each
county to designate an emergency medical services agency, for the
establishment and administration of an emergency medical services
program in the county. Existing law also establishes the Emergency
Medical Services Authority, which, among other things, adopts
regulations governing the provision of emergency medical services.
 
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 2191 of the   Business
and Professions Code  is amended to read: 
   2191.  (a) In determining its continuing education requirements,
the  Division of Licensing   board  shall
consider including a course in human sexuality as defined in Section
2090 and nutrition to be taken by those licensees whose practices may
require knowledge in those areas.
   (b) The  division   board  shall
consider including a course in child abuse detection and treatment to
be taken by those licensees whose practices are of a nature that
there is a likelihood of contact with abused or neglected children.
   (c) The  division   board  shall
consider including a course in acupuncture to be taken by those
licensees whose practices may require knowledge in the area of
acupuncture and whose education has not included instruction in
acupuncture.
   (d) The  division   board  shall
encourage every physician and surgeon to take nutrition as part of
his or her continuing education, particularly a physician and surgeon
involved in primary care.
   (e) The  division   board  shall
consider including a course in elder abuse detection and treatment to
be taken by those licensees whose practices are of a nature that
there is a likelihood of contact with abused or neglected persons 65
years of age and older.
   (f) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
 division   board  shall consider including
a course in the early detection and treatment of substance abusing
pregnant women to be taken by those licensees whose practices are of
a nature that there is a likelihood of contact with these women.
   (g) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
 division   board  shall consider including
a course in the special care needs of drug addicted infants to be
taken by those licensees whose practices are of a nature that there
is a likelihood of contact with these infants.
   (h) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
 division   board  shall consider including
a course providing training and guidelines on how to routinely
screen for signs exhibited by abused women, particularly for
physicians and surgeons in emergency, surgical, primary care,
pediatric, prenatal, and mental health settings.  In the
event the division   If the board  establishes a
requirement for continuing education coursework in spousal or partner
abuse detection or treatment, that requirement shall be met by each
licensee within no more than four years from the date the requirement
is imposed.
   (i) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
 division   board  shall consider including
a course in the special care needs of individuals and their families
facing end-of-life issues, including, but not limited to, all of the
following:
   (1) Pain and symptom management.
   (2) The psycho-social dynamics of death.
   (3) Dying and bereavement.
   (4) Hospice care.
   (j) In determining its  continuation  
continuing  education requirements, the  division
  board  shall give its highest priority to
considering a course on pain management. 
   (k) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall consider including a course in the diagnosis and
treatment of hepatitis to be taken by those licensees whose practices
may require such knowledge.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 1797 of the Health and
Safety Code is amended to read:
   1797.  This division shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency
Medical Care Personnel Act.