BILL NUMBER: AB 859	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 859, as introduced, Gomez. Professions and vocations: military
medical personnel.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various
professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer
Affairs.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would promote and pursue programmatic changes to
nursing and paramedic licensure requirements for California's
military medical personnel in order to recognize the talent, skills,
and training of these military medical personnel.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would promote and pursue programmatic changes to
nursing and paramedic licensure requirements for California's
military medical personnel in order to recognize the talent, skills,
and training of these military medical personnel.