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                                                                  SB 933
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          SENATE THIRD READING
          SB 933 (Runner)
          As Amended  August 31, 2011
          Majority vote

           SENATE VOTE  :40-0  
           
           BUSINESS & PROFESSIONS     9-0  APPROPRIATIONS      16-0        
           
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          |Ayes:|Hayashi, Bill Berryhill,  |Ayes:|Fuentes, Harkey,          |
          |     |Allen, Butler,            |     |Blumenfield,              |
          |     |Eng, Hagman, Hill, Ma,    |     |Bradford, Charles         |
          |     |Smyth                     |     |Calderon, Campos,         |
          |     |                          |     |Davis, Donnelly,          |
          |     |                          |     |Dickinson, Hall,          |
          |     |                          |     |Hill, Lara, Nielsen,      |
          |     |                          |     |Norby, Solorio,           |
          |     |                          |     |Wagner                    |
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           SUMMARY  :  Repeals the Hearing Aid Dispensers Licensing Law 
          (HADLL) and recasts those provisions into the Speech-Language 
          Pathologists and Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers 
          Licensure Act, and renames the Speech-Language Pathology and 
          Audiology Fund (SLPAF) to the Speech-Language Pathology and 
          Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Fund (Fund). 

           EXISTING LAW  establishes:

          1)The Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid 
            Dispensers Board (Board) to regulate the practice of 
            speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and hearing aid 
            dispensers.

          2)The Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists Licensure 
            Act to regulate the practices of speech-language pathology and 
            audiology.  

          3)The HADLL which provides for the licensure and regulation of 
            hearing aid dispensers.

          4)The Hearing Aid Dispensers Account (HADA) under the SLPAF.








                                                                  SB 933
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           FISCAL EFFECT  :  According to the Assembly Appropriations 
          Committee, negligible state fiscal impact.  The Board indicates 
          that the consolidation into one fund will help stabilize revenue 
          and streamline operations.

           COMMENTS  :  According to the author, "SB 933 is a cleanup measure 
          that serves to merge and consolidate the relevant Practice Acts 
          for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and hearing aid 
          dispensers.  AB 1535 (Jones), Chapter 309, Statutes of 2009, 
          merged the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board 
          (SLPAB), and the Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau (HADB) to form 
          the Board, effective January 1, 2010.  However, AB 1535 did not 
          merge or consolidate the relevant Practices Acts and, as such, 
          many of the existing provisions regarding the Board's 
          administrative oversight are either redundant or obsolete.

          "This bill is not intended to change or alter any of the 
          licensing or enforcement provisions governing the professions, 
          but instead will provide technical cleanup regarding the 
          governance structure and oversight of the Board.  The provisions 
          of SB 933 will make necessary technical changes relative to 
          combining the laws applicable to speech-language pathologists, 
          audiologists, and hearing aid dispensers.  The cleanup 
          provisions will clarify the Board's oversight responsibilities 
          for the three governed professions and will eliminate 
          duplicative and obsolete laws that are no longer applicable 
          pursuant to the merger of SLPAB and HADB."


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Joanna Gin / B.,P. & C.P. / (916) 
          319-3301 

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