BILL NUMBER: AB 2600 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 20, 2010
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 25, 2010
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Ma
( Coauthor: Assembly Member
Lieu )
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
An act to amend Section 2191 of the Business and
Professions Code, relating to medicine. An act to
amend Section 400 of the Family Code, relating to marriage and
declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2600, as amended, Ma. Medicine: licensing: continuing
education requirements. Marriage: solemnization.
Existing law provides that a marriage may be solemnized by
authorized persons of any religious denomination, by specified
legislators, constitutional officers, and California Members of
Congress, while those persons are currently holding that office, and
by specified justices, judges, and magistrates, both current and
retired.
This bill would authorize an elected mayor of a city, while that
person holds that office, to solemnize a marriage ceremony, and would
require the mayor to obtain and review from the county clerk all
available instructions for marriage solemnization before the mayor
first solemnizes a marriage.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
Existing law requires the Medical Board of California to establish
continuing education requirements for physicians and surgeons, and
requires the board to consider including various courses in
determining its continuing education requirements.
This bill would, in addition, require the board to consider
including a continuing education course in the diagnosis and
treatment of hepatitis.
Vote: majority 2/3 . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes no .
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 400 of the Family
Code is amended to read:
400. Marriage may be solemnized by any of the following who is
of the age of 18 years of age or older:
(a) A priest, minister, rabbi, or authorized person of any
religious denomination.
(b) A judge or retired judge, commissioner of civil marriages or
retired commissioner of civil marriages, commissioner or retired
commissioner, or assistant commissioner of a court of record in this
state.
(c) A judge or magistrate who has resigned from office.
(d) Any of the following judges or magistrates of the United
States:
(1) A justice or retired justice of the United States Supreme
Court.
(2) A judge or retired judge of a court of appeals, a district
court, or a court created by an act of Congress the judges of which
are entitled to hold office during good behavior.
(3) A judge or retired judge of a bankruptcy court or a tax court.
(4) A United States magistrate or retired magistrate.
(e) A legislator or constitutional officer of this state or a
Member of Congress who represents a district within this state, while
that person holds office.
(f) A mayor of a city elected in accordance with Article 3
(commencing with Section 34900) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2
of Title 4 of the Government Code, while that person holds office.
The mayor shall obtain and review from the county clerk all available
instructions for marriage solemnization before the mayor first
solemnizes a marriage.
SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to relieve the workloads of county clerks who currently
deputize mayors as deputy commissioners of civil marriage prior to
the solemnization of a marriage, and to provide citizens with more
options as they choose their wedding officiants, it is necessary that
this act take effect immediately.
SECTION 1. Section 2191 of the Business and
Professions Code is amended to read:
2191. (a) In determining its continuing education requirements,
the board shall consider including a course in human sexuality as
defined in Section 2090 and nutrition to be taken by those licensees
whose practices may require knowledge in those areas.
(b) The board shall consider including a course in child abuse
detection and treatment to be taken by those licensees whose
practices are of a nature that there is a likelihood of contact with
abused or neglected children.
(c) The board shall consider including a course in acupuncture to
be taken by those licensees whose practices may require knowledge in
the area of acupuncture and whose education has not included
instruction in acupuncture.
(d) The board shall encourage every physician and surgeon to take
nutrition as part of his or her continuing education, particularly a
physician and surgeon involved in primary care.
(e) The board shall consider including a course in elder abuse
detection and treatment to be taken by those licensees whose
practices are of a nature that there is a likelihood of contact with
abused or neglected persons 65 years of age and older.
(f) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall consider including a course in the early detection and
treatment of substance abusing pregnant women to be taken by those
licensees whose practices are of a nature that there is a likelihood
of contact with these women.
(g) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall consider including a course in the special care needs of
drug addicted infants to be taken by those licensees whose practices
are of a nature that there is a likelihood of contact with these
infants.
(h) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall consider including a course providing training and
guidelines on how to routinely screen for signs exhibited by abused
women, particularly for physicians and surgeons in emergency,
surgical, primary care, pediatric, prenatal, and mental health
settings. If the board establishes a requirement for continuing
education coursework in spousal or partner abuse detection or
treatment, that requirement shall be met by each licensee within no
more than four years from the date the requirement is imposed.
(i) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall consider including a course in the special care needs of
individuals and their families facing end-of-life issues, including,
but not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Pain and symptom management.
(2) The psycho-social dynamics of death.
(3) Dying and bereavement.
(4) Hospice care.
(j) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall give its highest priority to considering a course on pain
management.
(k) In determining its continuing education requirements, the
board shall consider including a course in the diagnosis and
treatment of hepatitis to be taken by those licensees whose practices
may require such knowledge.