BILL NUMBER: AB 2194	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Business and Professions (Assembly
Members Bonilla (Chair), Jones (Vice Chair), Baker, Bloom, Campos,
Chang, Dodd, Mullin, Ting, Wilk, and Wood)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to amend Sections 3504 and 3512 of the Business and
Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2194, as introduced, Committee on Business and Professions.
Physician Assistant Board: personnel.
   The Physician Assistant Practice Act provides for the licensure
and regulation of physician assistants by the Physician Assistant
Board, which is within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of
California, and authorizes the Physician Assistant Board, except as
specified, to employ personnel necessary to carry out the provisions
of that act, including an executive officer. Existing law repeals the
Physician Assistant Board and the authorization for the board to
employ personnel as of January 1, 2017.
   This bill would extend those provisions until January 1, 2021.
   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 3504 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   3504.  There is established a Physician Assistant Board within the
jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California. The board consists
of nine members. This section shall remain in effect only until
January 1,  2017,   2021  and as of that
date is  repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is
enacted before January 1, 2017, deletes or extends that date.
    repealed.  Notwithstanding any
other  provision of  law, the repeal of this
section renders the board subject to review by the appropriate policy
committees of the Legislature.
  SEC. 2.  Section 3512 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   3512.  (a) Except as provided in Sections 159.5 and 2020, the
board shall employ within the limits of the Physician Assistant Fund
all personnel necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter
including an executive officer who shall be exempt from civil
service. The Medical Board of California and board shall make all
necessary expenditures to carry out the provisions of this chapter
from the funds established by Section 3520. The board may accept
contributions to effect the purposes of this chapter.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
 2017,   2021,  and as of that date is
 repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted
before January 1, 2017, deletes or extends that date.  
repealed.