BILL NUMBER: AB 1647	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 12, 2010
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 17, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 28, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 28, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 10, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 5, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 23, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Hayashi and Hill
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Ammiano, Bass, Beall, Coto, Davis,
Fletcher, Furutani, Galgiani, Huffman, Lieu, Bonnie Lowenthal,
Ruskin, Saldana, Smyth, and Solorio)
   (Coauthor: Senator Strickland)

                        JANUARY 13, 2010

   An act to add Chapter 2.7 (commencing with Section 18898) to
Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to
athletics.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1647, Hayashi. Athletics.
   Existing law provides for the regulation of various professions
and vocations, including those of an athlete agent.
   This bill would make it unlawful for any person to hold himself or
herself out as a certified athletic trainer unless he or she has
been certified by the Board of Certification, Inc., and has either
graduated from a college or university, after completing an
accredited athletic training education program, as specified, or
completed requirements for certification by the Board of
Certification, Inc., prior to January 1, 2004. The bill would make it
an unfair business practice to violate these provisions.


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

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 2.7 (commencing with Section 18898) is added to
Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 2.7.  ATHLETIC TRAINERS


   18898.  (a) No person shall hold himself or herself out to be a
certified athletic trainer unless he or she meets the following
requirements:
   (1) He or she has done either of the following:
   (A) Graduated from a college or university after completing an
athletic training education program accredited by the Commission on
Accreditation of Athletic Training Education, or its predecessors or
successors.
   (B) Completed requirements for certification by the Board of
Certification, Inc., prior to January 1, 2004.
   (2) He or she has been certified by the Board of Certification,
Inc.
   (b) It is an unfair business practice within the meaning of
Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 2 of Division 7 for
any person to use the title of "certified athletic trainer" or any
other term, such as "licensed," "registered," or "ATC," that implies
or suggests that the person is certified as an athletic trainer, if
the person does not meet the requirements of subdivision (a).