BILL NUMBER: AB 333	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 30, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Melendez

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2015

   An act to add Section 856 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 333, as amended, Melendez. Healing arts: continuing education.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various
healing arts licensees by various boards, as defined, within the
Department of Consumer Affairs and imposes various continuing
education requirements for license renewal.
   This bill would allow specified healing arts licensees to apply
one unit, as defined, of continuing education credit  once per
renewal cycle  towards any required continuing education units
for attending  a course   certain courses 
that  results   result  in the licensee
becoming a certified instructor of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR) or the proper use of an automated external defibrillator
 (`AED),   (AED),  and would allow
specified healing arts licensees to apply up to 2 units of continuing
education credit  once per renewal cycle  towards any
required continuing education units for conducting 
board-approved  CPR or AED training sessions for employees of
school districts and community college districts in the state. 
The bill would specify that these provisions would not apply if a
licensing board   's laws   or regulations
establishing continuing education requirements exclude the courses or
activities mentioned above. 
   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 856 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   856.  (a)  (1)    A person licensed pursuant to
this division who is required to complete continuing education units
as a condition of renewing his or her license  may 
 may, once per renewal cycle,  apply one unit of continuing
education  credit   credit, pursuant to
paragraph (2),  towards that requirement for attending a course
that results in the licensee becoming a certified instructor of
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or the proper use of an automated
external defibrillator (AED). 
   (2) A licensee may only apply continuing education credit for
attending one of the following courses:  
   (A) An instructional program developed by the American Heart
Association.  
   (B) An instructional program developed by the American Red Cross.
 
   (C) An instructional program that is nationally recognized and
based on the most current national evidence-based emergency
cardiovascular care guidelines for the performance of CPR and the use
of an AED. 
   (b)  (1)    A person licensed pursuant to this
division who is required to complete continuing education units as a
condition of renewing his or her license  may  
may, once per renewal cycle,  apply up to two units of
continuing education  credit   credit, pursuant
to paragraph (2),  towards that requirement for conducting CPR
or AED training sessions for employees of school districts and
community college districts in the state. 
   (2) A licensee may only apply continuing education credit for
holding a training session if the training session is approved by the
applicable licensing board. 
   (c) For purposes of this section, "unit" means any measurement for
continuing education, such as hours or course credits. 
   (d) This section shall not apply to a person licensed under this
division if the applicable licensing board's laws or regulations
establishing continuing education requirements exclude the courses or
activities described in subdivisions (a) and (b).