BILL NUMBER: AB 757	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

    An act relating to healing arts.   An act to
add Section 1246.7 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to
healing arts. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 757, as amended, Gomez. Healing arts: clinical laboratories.

   Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and
regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory
personnel by the State Department of Public Health, with specified
exceptions. A violation of those provisions is a crime. Existing law
authorizes a person who is licensed under those provisions to perform
certain laboratory tests.  
   This bill would authorize a medical assistant, as defined, who
meets specified criteria to perform a total protein refractometer
test analysis in a licensed plasma collection facility in this state.
Because a violation of those provisions would be a crime, the bill
would impose a state-mandated local program.  
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.  
   Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and
regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory
personnel by the State Department of Public Health, with specified
exceptions. Existing law authorizes a person who is licensed under
those provisions to perform certain laboratory tests. 

   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to identify who, and under which circumstances he or she,
may perform a total protein refractometer test analysis in a
licensed plasma collection facility in this state. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program:  no
  yes  .


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to identify who, and under which circumstances he or she,
may perform a total protein refractometer test analysis in a
licensed plasma collection facility in this state.
   SEC. 2.    Section 1246.7 is added to the  
Business and Professions Code   , to read:  
   1246.7.  A medical assistant, as defined in Section 2069, may
perform a total protein refractometer test analysis in a licensed
plasma collection facility in this state if all of the following
conditions are met:
   (a) He or she has earned a high school diploma or equivalent, as
determined by HCFA pursuant to CLIA.
   (b) He or she performs the total protein refractometer test
analysis in a licensed plasma collection facility.
   (c) He or she has been instructed by a physician and surgeon
licensed in this state or by a licensed clinical laboratory director
who is in charge of the licensed plasma collection facility in the
proper procedure to be employed when performing a total protein
refractometer test analysis.
   (d) He or she performs the total protein refractometer test
analysis under the direction and supervision of the physician and
surgeon or licensed clinical laboratory director.
   (e) He or she submits the analysis for interpretation to the
physician and surgeon or licensed clinical laboratory director under
whose direction and supervision he or she performed the analysis.

   SEC. 3.    No reimbursement is required by this act
pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local
agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a
new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or
changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of
Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a
crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the
California Constitution.