BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: January 21, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Jimmy Gomez, Chair
AB
1174 (Bonilla) - As Amended January 4, 2016
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill adds the Board of Podiatric Medicine (BPM) to a list
of boards required to create and maintain a database with
specified professional licensee information.
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FISCAL EFFECT:
Negligible state costs. The BPM already does what the bill
requires.
COMMENTS:
1)Purpose. The author indicates this author-sponsored bill adds
BPM to a list along with other boards, thereby clarifying the
BPM's authority to continue current practice.
2)Background. The BPM regulates Doctors of Podiatric Medicine.
Though functioning semi-independently and under its own
professional board, BPM is part of the Medical Board of
California (MBC). Because of this association, it is MBC who
officially issues licenses to this small specialty group of
about 2,000 practitioners upon the "recommendation" of BPM.
Thus, it appears that since MBC is already included in the
list to which this bill adds BPM, the list already implicitly
applies to BPM. This bill would make it explicit, effectively
codifying existing practice.
3)BPM Sunset Review Pending. Statutes related to the BPM expire
January 1, 2017 and it is likely the sunset will be extended
through legislation this year through the sunset review
process. The sunset review process offers the Legislature the
chance to periodically review the functioning of boards and
bureaus, and make statutory changes both significant and of a
minor and technical nature.
Analysis Prepared by:Lisa Murawski / APPR. / (916)
319-2081
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