BILL NUMBER: AB 1896	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 27, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act to amend the heading of Article 10 (commencing with Section
710) of Chapter 1 of Division 2 of, and to add Section 719 to, the
Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1896, as amended, Chesbro. Tribal health programs: health care
practitioners.
   Under existing federal law, licensed health professionals employed
by a tribal health program are required to be exempt, if licensed in
any state, from the licensing requirements of the state in which the
tribal health program performs specified services. A tribal health
program is defined as an Indian tribe or tribal organization that
operates any health program, service, function, activity, or facility
funded, in whole or part, by the Indian Health Service.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health
care practitioners by various healing arts boards  within the
Department of Consumer Affairs .
   This bill would codify that federal requirement by specifying that
a  person who is licensed as a  health care practitioner
 in any other state and is  employed by a tribal health
program is exempt from any state licensing requirement  with
respect to acts authorized under the person's license  where the
tribal health program performs specified services.
   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.  The heading of Article 10 (commencing with Section 710)
of Chapter 1 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:

      Article 10.  Federal Personnel and Tribal Health Programs


  SEC. 2.  Section 719 is added to the Business and Professions Code,
to read:
   719.  (a) A  person who is licensed as a  health care
practitioner  in any other state and is  employed by a
tribal health program, as defined in Section 1603 of Title 25 of the
United States Code, shall be exempt from any licensing requirement
described in this division  with respect to acts authorized under
the person's license  where the tribal health program performs
the services described in the contract or compact of the tribal
health program under the Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. Sec. 450 et seq.).
   (b) For purposes of this section, "health care practitioner" means
any person who engages in acts that are the subject of licensure or
regulation under  this division or any initiative act
referred to in this division   the law of any other
state  .