BILL NUMBER: AB 757	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

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

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

   An act to add  and repeal  Section 1246.7  to
  of  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   bill, until January 1, 2019,
 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.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: 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)    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) 
    (1)  He or she has earned a high school diploma or
equivalent, as determined by HCFA pursuant to CLIA. 
   (2) He or she performs the total protein refractometer test
analysis using an automatic, button-operated refractometer with a
digital readout.  
   (b) 
    (3)  He or she performs the total protein refractometer
test analysis in a licensed plasma collection facility. 
   (c) 
    (4)  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) 
    (5)  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) 
    (6)  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. 
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2019, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2019, deletes or extends
that date. 
  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.