BILL NUMBER: SB 305	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Price

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2013

   An act to amend Sections 2450, 2450.3, 3685, 3686, 3710, and 3716
of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 305, as introduced, Price. Healing arts: boards.
   Existing law, the Osteopathic Act, establishes the Osteopathic
Medical Board of California, which issues certificates to, and
regulates, osteopathic physicians and surgeons.
   This bill would require that the powers and duties of the board,
as provided, be subject to review by the appropriate policy
committees of the Legislature. The bill would require that review be
performed as if those provisions were scheduled to be repealed as of
January 1, 2018.
   Existing law, the Naturopathic Doctors Act, provides for the
licensure and regulation of naturopathic doctors by the Naturopathic
Medicine Committee within the Osteopathic Medical Board of
California. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2014.
Existing law also specifies that the committee is subject to review
by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature.
   This bill would instead repeal those provisions on January 1,
2018, and make conforming changes.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of
respiratory care practitioners by the Respiratory Care Board of
California. Existing law authorizes the board to employ an executive
officer. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2014 and
subjects the board to review by the Joint Sunset Review Committee.
   This bill would instead repeal those provisions on January 1,
2018, and provide that the committee is subject to review by the
appropriate policy committees of the Legislature.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 2450 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2450.  There is a Board of Osteopathic Examiners of the State of
California, established by the Osteopathic Act, which shall be known
as the Osteopathic Medical Board of California which enforces this
chapter relating to persons holding or applying for physician's and
surgeon's certificates issued by the Osteopathic Medical Board of
California under the Osteopathic Act.
   Persons who elect to practice using the term of suffix "M.D.," as
provided in Section 2275, shall not be subject to this article, and
the Medical Board of California shall enforce the provisions of this
chapter relating to persons who made the election. 
   Notwithstanding any other law, the powers and duties of the
Osteopathic Medical Board of California, as set forth in this article
and under the Osteopathic Act, shall be subject to review by the
appropriate policy committees of the Legislature. The review shall be
performed as if this chapter were scheduled to be repealed as of
January 1, 2018. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 2450.3 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2450.3.  There is within the jurisdiction of the Osteopathic
Medical Board of California a Naturopathic Medicine Committee
authorized under the Naturopathic Doctors Act (Chapter 8.2
(commencing with Section 3610)). This section shall become
inoperative on January 1,  2014,   2018, 
and, as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that
is enacted before January 1,  2014,   2018,
 deletes or extends that date. Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the repeal of this section renders the Naturopathic
Medicine Committee subject to review by the appropriate policy
committees of the Legislature.
  SEC. 3.  Section 3685 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   3685.   (a)     The
  Notwithstanding any other law, the  repeal of
this chapter renders the committee subject to  the review
required by Division 1.2 (commencing with Section 473). 
 review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature.
 
   (b) The committee shall prepare the report required by Section
473.2 no later than September 1, 2012. 
  SEC. 4.  Section 3686 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   3686.  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1,
 2014,   2018,  and as of that date is
repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before
January 1,  2014,   2018,  deletes or
extends that date.
  SEC. 5.  Section 3710 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   3710.  (a) The Respiratory Care Board of California, hereafter
referred to as the board, shall enforce and administer this chapter.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
 2014,   2018,  and as of that date is
repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before
January 1,  2014,   2018,  deletes or
extends that date.  The   Notwithstanding any
other law, the  repeal of this section renders the board subject
to  the review required by Division 1.2 (commencing with
Section 473).   review by the appropriate policy
committees of the Legislature. 
  SEC. 6.  Section 3716 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   3716.  The board may employ an executive officer exempt from civil
service and, subject to the provisions of law relating to civil
service, clerical assistants and, except as provided in Section
159.5, other employees as it may deem necessary to carry out its
powers and duties.
   This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 
2014,   2018,  and as of that date is repealed,
unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1,
 2014,   2018,  deletes or extends that
date.