BILL NUMBER: AB 931	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Conway

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 1200 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to clinics.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 931, as introduced, Conway. Clinics.
   Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health is
responsible for the licensing and regulation of clinics, defined as
an organized outpatient health facility that provides direct
specified advice, services, or treatment to patients who remain less
than 24 hours, and that may also provide diagnostic or therapeutic
services to patients in the home, as specified.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
provision.
   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 1200 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1200.  (a) As used in this chapter, "clinic" means an organized
outpatient health facility that provides direct medical, surgical,
dental, optometric, or podiatric advice, services, or treatment to
patients who remain less than 24 hours, and that may also provide
diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients in the home as an
incident to care provided at the clinic facility.  Nothing in
this section shall be construed to   This section does
not  prohibit the provision of nursing services in a clinic
licensed pursuant to this chapter. In no case shall a clinic be
deemed to be a health facility subject to the provisions of Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 1250). A place, establishment, or
institution that solely provides advice, counseling, information, or
referrals on the maintenance of health or on the means and measures
to prevent or avoid sickness, disease, or injury, where that advice,
counseling, information, or referral does not constitute the practice
of medicine, surgery, dentistry, optometry, or podiatry, shall not
be deemed a clinic for purposes of this chapter.
   (b) For purposes of this chapter:
   (1) "Primary care clinics" means all the types of clinics
specified in subdivision (a) of Section 1204, including community
clinics and free clinics.
   (2) "Specialty clinics" means all the types of clinics specified
in subdivision (b) of Section 1204, including surgical clinics,
chronic dialysis clinics, and rehabilitation clinics.
   (3) "Clinic corporation" means a nonprofit organization that
operates one or more primary care clinics, as defined in paragraph
(1) of subdivision (a) of Section 1204, that are required to be
licensed under Section 1205, one or more mobile health care units
required to be licensed or approved pursuant to the Mobile Health
Care Services Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 1765.101)) and
operated as primary care clinics, or one or more primary care clinics
and one or more mobile health care units.
   (4) "Department" means the Licensing and Certification Division of
the State Department of Public Health, or its successor.
   (5) "Centralized applications unit" means the centralized
applications unit in the Licensing and Certification Division of the
department, or a successor entity.