AB 670, as introduced, Atkins. Healing arts: reproduction of board records.
Existing law establishes the Medical Board of California, the Dental Board of California, and the California State Board of Pharmacy to regulate the practice of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy, respectively, including licensing professionals in those fields. Existing law provides that whenever the register or book of registration of one of those entities is destroyed by fire or other public calamity, the board, whose duty it is to keep the register or book, may reproduce it so that there may be shown as nearly as possible the record existing in the original at the time of destruction.
This bill would provide that acceptable forms for the reproduction include the portable document format (PDF) or other secure electronic format. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 500 of the Business and Professions Code
2 is amended to read:
Whenever the register or book of registration of the
2Medical Board of California, thebegin insert Dentalend insert Board ofbegin delete Dental Examinersend delete
3begin insert Californiaend insert, or thebegin insert California Stateend insert Board of Pharmacy is destroyed
4by fire or other public calamity, the board, whose duty it is to keep
5the register or book, may reproduce it so that there may be shown
6as nearly as possible the record existing in the original at the time
7of destruction.begin insert
Acceptable forms for the reproduction include the
8portable document format (PDF) or other secure electronic format.end insert
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