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 educationbegin delete creditend deletebegin insert credit,end insert once per renewalbegin delete cycleend deletebegin insert cycle,end insert towards any required continuing education units for attending certain courses
that result in the licensee becoming a certified instructor of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or the proper use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), and would allow specified healing arts licensees to apply up to 2 units of continuing educationbegin delete creditend deletebegin insert credit,end insert once per renewalbegin delete cycleend deletebegin insert cycle,end insert towards any required continuing education units for conductingbegin delete board-approvedend delete CPR or AED training sessions for employees of school districts and community college districts in the state. The bill would specify that these provisions wouldbegin delete notend deletebegin insert
onlyend insert apply if a licensing board’s laws or regulations establishing continuing education requirementsbegin delete excludeend deletebegin insert includeend insert
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 856 is added to the Business and
2Professions Code, to read:
(a) (1) A person licensed pursuant to this division who
4is required to complete continuing education units as a condition
5of renewing his or her license may, once per renewal cycle, apply
6one unit of continuing education credit, pursuant to paragraph (2),
7towards that requirement for attending a course that results in the
8licensee becoming a certified instructor of cardiopulmonary
9resuscitation (CPR) or the proper use of an automated external
10defibrillator (AED).
11(2) A licensee may only apply continuing education credit for
12attending one of the following courses:
13(A) An instructional program
developed by the American Heart
14Association.
15(B) An instructional program developed by the American Red
16Cross.
17(C) An instructional program that is nationally recognized and
18based on the most current national evidence-based emergency
19cardiovascular care guidelines for the performance of CPR and
20the use of an AED.
21(b) begin delete(1)end deletebegin delete end deleteA person licensed pursuant to this division who is
22required to complete continuing education units as a condition of
23renewing his or her license may, once per renewal cycle, apply up
24to two units of continuing educationbegin delete credit, pursuant to paragraph begin insert
creditend insert towards that requirement for conducting CPR or AED
25(2),end delete
26training sessions for employees of school districts and community
27college districts in the state.
28(2) A licensee may only apply continuing education credit for
29holding a training session if the training session is approved by
30the applicable licensing board.
31(c) For purposes of this section, “unit” means any measurement
32for continuing education, such as hours or course credits.
P3 1(d) This section shallbegin delete notend deletebegin insert
onlyend insert apply to a person licensed under
2this division if the applicable licensing board’s laws or regulations
3establishing continuing education requirementsbegin delete excludeend deletebegin insert includeend insert
4 the courses or activities described in subdivisions (a) and (b).
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