BILL NUMBER: AB 1905	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Logue

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act to amend Section 2727.5 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to nursing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1905, as introduced, Logue. Nursing.
   Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, prohibits a person from
engaging in the practice of nursing without holding a license which
is in an active status issued by the Board of Registered Nursing.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
   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 2727.5 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2727.5.  A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith
renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency  which
  that  occurs outside both the place and the
course of that person's employment shall not be liable for any civil
damages as the result of acts or omissions by that person in
rendering the emergency care.
   This section shall not grant immunity from civil damages when the
person is grossly negligent.