BILL NUMBER: SB 491	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 2834 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 491, as introduced, Hernandez. Nurse practitioners.
   Existing law declares the findings of the Legislature that the
public is harmed by conflicting usage of the title of nurse
practitioner and lack of correspondence between use of the title and
qualifications of the registered nurse using the title.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this declaration.

   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 2834 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2834.  The Legislature finds that various and conflicting
definitions of the nurse practitioner are being created by state
agencies and private organizations within California. The Legislature
also finds that the public is harmed by conflicting usage of the
title of nurse practitioner and  by  lack of correspondence
between use of the title and qualifications of the registered nurse
using the title. Therefore, the Legislature finds the public interest
served by determination of the legitimate use of the title "nurse
practitioner" by registered nurses.