BILL NUMBER: AB 2538	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nazarian

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 554 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2538, as introduced, Nazarian. Ophthalmia neonatorum.
   Existing law requires a doctor, midwife, or other person assisting
a mother or child at childbirth to report a case of ophthalmia
neonatorum in the child to the local health officer, as specified.
Existing law requires the local health officer to take specific
actions with respect to each reported case.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
requirements.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 554 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   554.  The local health officer shall  do all of the following
 :
   (a) Investigate each case filed with him  in pursuance of
  or her pursuant to  this article, and all other
cases coming to his  or her  attention.
   (b) Report all cases of ophthalmia neonatorum coming to his 
or her  knowledge, and the result of all investigations that he
 or she  makes to the department, in  such 
 the  form  as   that  the
department directs.
   (c) Conform to  such   the  rules and
regulations  as   that  the department
promulgates for the purpose of carrying out  the provisions
of  this article.