BILL NUMBER: SB 128	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Emmerson

                        JANUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 921 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 128, as introduced, Emmerson. Health care professionals.
   Existing law, the Health Care Professional Disaster Response Act,
states findings of the Legislature regarding the shortage of
qualified health care practitioners during times of national or state
disasters, and allows a physician and surgeon, whose license has
been expired for less than 5 years and who meets specified criteria,
to obtain a license without paying fees.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those
provisions.
   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 921 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   921.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following:
   (1) In times of national or state disasters, a shortage of
qualified health care practitioners may exist in areas throughout the
state where they are desperately required to respond to public
health emergencies.
   (2) Health care practitioners with lapsed or inactive licenses
could potentially serve in those areas where a shortage of qualified
health care practitioners exists, if licensing requirements were
streamlined and fees curtailed.
   (b)  It is, therefore,   Therefore, 
 it is  the intent of the Legislature to address these
matters through the provisions of the Health Care Professional
Disaster Response Act.