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          Date of Hearing:   July 15, 2009

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Kevin De Leon, Chair

           SB 819 (Business and Professions Committee) - As Amended:  June  
                                      22, 2009 

          Policy Committee:                              Business and  
          Professions  Vote:                            10 - 0 

          Urgency:     Yes                  State Mandated Local Program:  
          Yes    Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY 

          This committee bill makes several non-controversial,  
          non-substantive or technical changes to various provisions  
          pertaining to the regulatory boards in the Department of  
          Consumer Affairs (DCA). Among other provisions, this bill: 

          1)Specifies that the Board of Behavioral Sciences will stop  
            publishing a citation and fine determination against a  
            licensee on the Internet after five years from the issuance of  
            the citation. The five-year limit would not apply to citations  
            where the fine paid is in excess of $1,500. 

          2)Permits the use of a mobile pharmacy in the event of a  
            declared natural disaster under specified criteria or on a  
            temporary basis when a pharmacy is destroyed or damaged.

          3)Specifies who in the drug supply chain may receive dangerous  
            drugs furnished by a pharmacy.

          4)Clarifies that a person may qualify to become a certified  
            interior designer by either education or experience, or a  
            combination of both education and experience that totals eight  
            years.

          5)Authorizes the Physical Therapy Board of California to  
            disconnect telephone service furnished to an unlicensed person  
            advertising in a telephone directory.

          6)Allows the Respiratory Care Board of California to take  
            disciplinary action against a licensee practicing respiratory  








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            care while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Costs associated with this legislation are minor and would be  
          absorbable within existing resources.

           COMMENTS  

           Purpose  . This bill is the Senate Professions and Economic  
          Development Committee's annual omnibus bill that consolidates a  
          number of non-controversial provisions related to various  
          regulatory programs and professions governed by the Business and  
          Professions Code.  Consolidating the provisions in one bill is  
          designed to relieve the various licensing boards, bureaus and  
          professions from the necessity and burden of having separate  
          measures for a number of non-controversial revisions.

          As a committee bill, this measure is jointly authored by each of  
          the members of the committee.  As such it is a consensus bill.   
          If controversy or opposition should arise regarding any  
          provision in this bill that cannot be resolved, then that  
          provision will be removed from the bill.  


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081