BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB
2193 (Salas)
As Amended August 16, 2016
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |80-0 |(May 31, 2016) |SENATE: |36-0 |(August 19, |
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Original Committee Reference: B. & P.
SUMMARY: Extends the operation of the Board of Podiatric
Medicine (BPM), the operation of the Physician Assistant Board
(PAB), and the PAB's authority to appoint an executive officer
until January 1, 2021.
The Senate amendments specify that the funds of the BPM and PAB
are subject to appropriation by the Legislature.
FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee:
1)Ongoing costs of $1.5 million per year for the continuing
operation of the Board of Podiatric Medicine (Board of
Podiatric Medicine Fund). All costs to operate the Board are
paid for with license fee revenues.
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2)Ongoing costs of $1.7 million per year for the continuing
operation of the Physician Assistant Board (Physician
Assistant Fund). All costs to operate the Board are paid for
with license fee revenues.
COMMENTS:
Purpose. Unless legislation is carried this year to extend the
sunset dates for the BPM and the PAB, they will be repealed on
January 1, 2017. The legislative changes reflected in this bill
are solutions to issues raised in the Assembly Committee on
Business and Professions' staff Background Paper and during the
sunset review hearing held on March 9, 2016. In addition, this
bill will extend the BPM and PAB's authority to appoint an
executive officer.
Background. In March of 2016, the Senate Business and
Professions Committee and the Assembly Business and Professions
Committee (Committees) conducted several joint oversight
hearings to review 11 regulatory entities, including the BPM and
the PAB. This bill and the accompanying sunset bills are
intended to implement legislative changes as recommended by the
committee staff Background Papers prepared for each entity
reviewed. The recommendations adopted under this bill were to
extend the boards until January 1, 2021.
Appropriation by the Legislature. A budget trailer bill, AB 139
(Budget Committee), Chapter 74, Statutes of 2005, among other
things, deleted provisions continuously appropriating the funds
of several licensing boards under the Department of Consumer
Affairs. At the time, the Senate floor analysis noted that the
changes were "Primarily technical in nature, since these boards
and commissions have received Budget Act appropriations in
recent years."
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Analysis Prepared by:
Vincent Chee / B. & P. / (916) 319-3301 FN:
0004745