BILL NUMBER: AB 877	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Emmerson

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 877, as introduced, Emmerson. Healing arts.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various
healing arts practitioners by boards within the Department of
Consumer Affairs and the department is under the control of the
Director of Consumer Affairs.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation authorizing the Director of Consumer Affairs to appoint a
specified committee of 7 members to perform occupational analyses,
as specified, and to prepare written reports on any bill that seeks
to expand the scope of a healing arts practice.
   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.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would authorize the Director of Consumer Affairs to
appoint a committee to perform occupational analyses on various
healing arts practices, to include, but not be limited to, education,
training, and experience, and to prepare a written report on any
bill introduced in either house of the Legislature that seeks to
expand the scope of a healing arts practice as described in Division
2 of the Business and Professions Code.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the committee be
comprised of seven members as follows: two academics representing
each side of the scope of practice issue, one practitioner
representing each side of the scope of practice issue, and one public
member.
   (c) It is further the intent of the Legislature that the cost of
the occupational analyses and the written reports be borne on the
healing arts practice requesting the expanded scope of practice.