BILL NUMBER: AB 1940	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 5, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fletcher

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

    An act to amend Section 114872 of the Health and Safety
Code, relating to fluoroscopy.   An act to amend Section
3520 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.




	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1940, as amended, Fletcher.  Fluoroscopy. 
 Physician   a   ssistants.  
   Existing law, the Physician Assistant Practice Act, provides for
the licensure and regulation of physician assistants by the Physician
Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California. Existing law
requires the board, within 10 days after the beginning of each
month, to report to the Controller the amount of all collections made
under the act and to pay those sums into the Physician Assistant
Fund in the State Treasury.  
   This bill would require the board to make that report and to
deposit those sums within 5 business days after the beginning of each
month.  
   Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health issues
licentiate fluoroscopy permits, as specified.  
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
 yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 3520 of the   Business
and Professions Code  is amended to read: 
   3520.  Within  10   5   business
 days after the beginning of each calendar month  , 
the board shall report to the Controller the amount and source of all
collections made under this chapter and at the same time pay all
those sums into the State Treasury, where they shall be credited to
the Physician Assistant Fund, which fund is hereby created. All money
in the fund shall be used to carry out the purpose of this chapter.

  SECTION 1.    Section 114872 of the Health and
Safety Code is amended to read:
   114872.  (a) The department shall issue a licentiate fluoroscopy
permit to a qualified licentiate of the healing arts, as defined in
paragraph (2) of subdivision (h) of Section 114850. Notwithstanding
any other law, the department shall accept an application for a
fluoroscopy permit from a licensed physician assistant who meets the
requirements of this section.
   (b) A physician and surgeon may delegate to a licensed physician
assistant procedures using fluoroscopy. In order to supervise a
physician assistant in performing the functions authorized by the
Radiologic Technology Act (Section 27), a physician and surgeon shall
either hold, or be exempt from holding, a licentiate fluoroscopy
permit required to perform the functions being supervised.
   (c) A physician assistant to whom a physician and surgeon has
delegated the use of fluoroscopy shall demonstrate successful
completion of 40 hours of total coursework, including fluoroscopy
radiation safety and protection, recognized by the department.
Documentation of completed coursework shall be kept on file at the
practice site and available to the department upon request.
   (d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to remove the need
for a physician assistant to pass a department-approved examination
in fluoroscopy radiation safety and protection pursuant to Article 1
(commencing with Section 30460) of Group 5 of Subchapter 4.5 of
Chapter 5 of Division 1 of Title 17 of the California Code of
Regulations.
   (e) A licensed physician assistant who is issued a fluoroscopy
permit pursuant to the requirements of this section shall, in the two
years preceding the expiration date of the permit, earn 10 approved
continuing education credits. The department shall accept continuing
education credits approved by the Physician Assistant Committee.
   (f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize a
physician assistant to perform any other procedures utilizing
ionizing radiation except those authorized by holding a licentiate
fluoroscopy permit.
   (g) Nothing in this section shall be construed to remove the need
for a physician assistant to be subject to the permit requirements
approved by the department pursuant to Subchapter 4.5 (commencing
with Section 30400) of Chapter 5 of Division 1 of Title 17 of the
California Code of Regulations.
   (h) The department may charge applicants under this section a fee
in an amount sufficient, but not greater than the amount required, to
cover the department's costs of implementing this section. The fees
collected pursuant to this subdivision shall be deposited into the
Radiation Control Fund established pursuant to Section 114980.