BILL NUMBER: AB 333	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 24, 2015
	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
  credit,  once per renewal  cycle
  cycle, 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 education  credit   credit,
 once per renewal  cycle   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   only  apply if a licensing board's laws or
regulations establishing continuing education requirements 
exclude   include  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, once per renewal cycle, apply one
unit of continuing education 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,
once per renewal cycle, apply up to two units of continuing education
 credit, pursuant to paragraph (2),   credit
 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   only 
apply to a person licensed under this division if the applicable
licensing board's laws or regulations establishing continuing
education requirements  exclude   include 
the courses or activities described in subdivisions (a) and (b).