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          Date of Hearing:   August 14, 2013

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

              SB 821 (Business and Professions Committee) - As Amended:   
                                   August 5, 2013 

          Policy Committee:                             Business and  
          Professions  Vote:                            13-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill makes several technical and noncontroversial changes  
          to provisions within the Business and Professions Code (BPC)  
          related to the regulation of the Dental Board of California  
          (DBC), Board of Optometry (BO), Board of Behavioral Sciences  
          (BBS), as well as dental hygienists regulated under the Welfare  
          and Institutions Code (WIC). Among other minor changes, this  
          bill: 

          1)Makes various changes to the licensure requirements for  
            various mental health professions regulated by BBS, and delays  
            by two years changes to licensure standards that were to go  
            into effect in 2014. 

          2)Revises the preferred title for optometrist licenses and  
            certifications.

          3)Adds registered dental hygienists (RDHs) and registered  
            hygienists in extended functions (RDHEFs) to the list of  
            practitioners able to provide covered dental hygiene services  
            in Denti-Cal.  

          4)Includes technical chaptering amendments in the WIC to avoid  
            nullifying provisions of SB 1 X1 (Hernández and Steinberg),  
            Chapter 4, Statutes of 2013. 

          5)Defines a correctional pharmacy.
           
          FISCAL EFFECT  









                                                                  SB 821
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          Minor and absorbable costs to the affected boards.

           COMMENTS  

           Rationale  . This is a committee bill authored by the Senate  
          Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee for the  
          purpose of consolidating multiple, non-controversial revisions  
          to existing law into a single bill.  The provisions contained in  
          this bill make minor, technical, clarifying and other  
          non-controversial substantive changes to several health-related  
          boards regulated under the DCA.  This bill is author-sponsored.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Lisa Murawski / APPR. / (916) 319-2081