BILL NUMBER: AB 1896	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 2, 2012
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 3, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 27, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act to amend the heading of Article 10 (commencing with Section
710) of Chapter 1 of Division 2 of, and to add Section 719 to, the
Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1896, Chesbro. Tribal health programs: health care
practitioners.
   Under existing federal law, licensed health professionals employed
by a tribal health program are required to be exempt, if licensed in
any state, from the licensing requirements of the state in which the
tribal health program performs specified services. A tribal health
program is defined as an Indian tribe or tribal organization that
operates any health program, service, function, activity, or facility
funded, in whole or part, by the Indian Health Service.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health
care practitioners by various healing arts boards within the
Department of Consumer Affairs.
   This bill would codify that federal requirement by specifying that
a person who is licensed as a health care practitioner in any other
state and is employed by a tribal health program is exempt from this
state's licensing requirements with respect to acts authorized under
the person's license where the tribal health program performs
specified services.


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

  SECTION 1.  The heading of Article 10 (commencing with Section 710)
of Chapter 1 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:

      Article 10.  Federal Personnel and Tribal Health Programs


  SEC. 2.  Section 719 is added to the Business and Professions Code,
to read:
   719.  (a) A person who is licensed as a health care practitioner
in any other state and is employed by a tribal health program, as
defined in Section 1603 of Title 25 of the United States Code, shall
be exempt from any licensing requirement described in this division
with respect to acts authorized under the person's license where the
tribal health program performs the services described in the contract
or compact of the tribal health program under the Indian
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. Sec. 450
et seq.).
   (b) For purposes of this section, "health care practitioner" means
any person who engages in acts that are the subject of licensure or
regulation under the law of any other state.