BILL ANALYSIS Ó SB 1466 Page 1 Date of Hearing: August 6, 2014 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Mike Gatto, Chair SB 1466 (Committee on Business and Professions) - As Amended: July 1, 2014 Policy Committee: Business and Professions Vote: 13-0 Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: Yes Reimbursable: No SUMMARY This omnibus bill makes non-controversial, minor, non-substantive or technical changes to various health-related professions regulated by the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA). Specifically, key provisions of this bill: 1)Require physicians performing any procedure, instead of only scheduled procedures, that results in the death of a patient to report to the Medical Board of California. 2)Redefine a correctional pharmacy as a pharmacy located within a correctional facility, without regard to whether the facility is a state or local facility. 3)Allow potential licensees regulated by the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) additional time to pass the California law and ethics exam. 4)Make other non-controversial, non-substantive, minor or technical changes. FISCAL EFFECT Costs to affected boards to incorporate changes from this bill into current practice are minor and absorbable. COMMENTS Purpose . This bill makes numerous changes to provisions related to health-related regulatory boards of the DCA. This bill is SB 1466 Page 2 sponsored by the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development (BPED). Consolidating the provisions in one bill is designed to relieve the various licensing agencies from the necessity of having separate measures for a number of non-controversial revisions. Analysis Prepared by : Lisa Murawski / APPR. / (916) 319-2081