BILL NUMBER: AB 670	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Atkins

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 500 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 500 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   500.  Whenever the register or book of registration of the Medical
Board of California, the  Dental  Board of  Dental
Examiners   California  , or the  California
State  Board of Pharmacy 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. 
Acceptable forms for the reproduction include the portable document
format (PDF) or other secure electronic format.