BILL NUMBER: AB 1736	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Tom Berryhill and Ma

                        FEBRUARY 4, 2010

   An act to amend Section 2000 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to medicine.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1736, as introduced, Tom Berryhill. Medicine.
   Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the
regulation of the practice of medicine by the Medical Board of
California.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to a
provision of the act.
   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 2000 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2000.  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Medical
Practice Act. Whenever a reference is made to the Medical Practice
Act by the provisions of any statute,  it   the
reference  is to be construed as referring to the provisions of
this chapter.