BILL ANALYSIS
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 583 (Hayashi)
As Amended August 20, 2010
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |78-0 |(April 13, |SENATE: |27-9 |(August 24, |
| | |2009) | | |2010) |
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Original Committee Reference: B., P. & C.P.
SUMMARY : Requires health care practitioners to provide their
name, license type, and highest level of academic degree, and
board certification in a written disclosure or in their offices,
as specified.
The Senate amendments :
1)Require health care practitioners to disclose their name,
license type, and highest level of academic degree in their
office or in writing to their patients, as specified.
2)Require physicians and surgeons, including osteopathic
physicians, as specified, to disclose the name of their
certifying board or association.
3)Require health care practitioners disclosing the required
information in writing to use at least 24-point type and a
specified format.
4)Exempt nurses and pharmacists from the requirement to display
their highest level of academic degree.
5)Require health care practitioners providing information
regarding health care services on an Internet Web site by
their direct control or office personnel, to prominently
display the information required by this bill.
6)Exempt the following health care practitioners from this bill:
a) Those providing professional medical services to
enrollees of a health care service plan that exclusively
contracts with a single medical group in a specific
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geographic area;
b) Those working in a licensed clinical laboratory or
health facility, including hospitals, nursing facilities,
intermediate care facilities, correctional treatment
centers, as specified; and,
c) Those licensed in one of the following professions:
clinical laboratory technology, hearing aid dispensers,
respiratory therapy, veterinary medicine, and social
workers.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Makes it unlawful for health care licensees to disseminate or
cause to be disseminated any form of public communication, as
defined, containing false, fraudulent, misleading, deceptive
statements, or images, as specified, to induce the provision
of services or the rendering of a product relating to a
professional practice or business for which he or she is
licensed, and provides that any person so licensed who
violates this provision is guilty of a misdemeanor and that
such a violation shall constitute good cause for revocation or
suspension of his or her license or other disciplinary action
including an administrative fine not to exceed $10,000.
2)Authorizes advertising by health care licensees if it includes
certain general information regarding the practitioner and
requires certain disclosures to be made regarding dentists,
physicians and surgeons, podiatrists and optometrists
regarding the advertising of their education, accreditation,
certification or specialty.
3)Specifies requirements for the recognition and advertising, or
claims or statements made by dentists, physicians and
surgeons, podiatrists and optometrists regarding board
certification, or recognition by an accrediting organization,
multidisciplinary board or association.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill required health care
practitioners to display their educational degree, license type
and status, and board certification on either their nametag or
in their offices, as specified. This bill also required
supervising physicians and surgeons to post their hours in each
office.
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FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown. This bill is keyed non-fiscal.
COMMENTS : This bill was amended in the Senate to require health
care practitioners to disclose specified information by written
disclosure or by prominent display, instead of on name tags.
This bill, as amended in the Senate in consistent with Assembly
actions.
Analysis Prepared by : Joanna Gin / B.,P. & C.P. / (916)
319-3301
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