BILL NUMBER: AB 1838	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 14, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 5, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Pan   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2014

   An act to add Section 2084.5 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1838, as amended, Bonilla. Healing arts: medical school
accreditation.
   Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure
and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of
California. Existing law requires each applicant for a physician's
and surgeon's certificate to show by official transcript or other
official evidence satisfactory to the Division of Licensing that he
or she has successfully completed a specified medical curriculum that
meets certain clinical instruction requirements extending over a
period of at least 4 academic years, or 32 months of actual
instruction, in a medical school, as specified.
   This bill, notwithstanding any other law, would provide that a
medical school or medical school program accredited by the Liaison
Committee on Medical  Education or   Education,
 the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical 
Schools   Schools, or the Commission on Osteopathic
College Accreditation  is deemed to meet the requirements
described above.
   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 2084.5 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   2084.5.  Notwithstanding any other law, a medical school or
medical school program accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical
 Education or   Education,  the Committee
on Accreditation of Canadian Medical  Schools  
Schools, or the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation 
shall be deemed to meet the requirements of Sections 2089 and
2089.5.