BILL NUMBER: AB 1932	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cook

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act to add Section 710.2 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1932, as introduced, Cook. United States armed services:
healing arts boards.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various
healing arts professions and vocations by boards within the
Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires the rules and
regulations of these healing arts boards to provide for methods of
evaluating education, training, and experience obtained in military
service if such training is applicable to the requirements of the
particular profession or vocation regulated by the board. Under
existing law, the Department of Veterans Affairs has specified powers
and duties relating to various programs serving veterans.
   This bill would require, by January 1, 2014, and annually
thereafter, every healing arts board to issue a specified written
report to the Department of Veterans Affairs that clearly details the
methods of evaluating the education, training, and experience
obtained in military service and whether that education, training,
and experience is applicable to the board's requirements for
licensure. The bill would declare the intent of the Legislature in
this regard.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 710 of the Business and Professions Code was
enacted in 1969 and because healing arts boards have not demonstrated
significant compliance with that section, it is the intent of the
Legislature to establish an annual reporting requirement to compel
these boards to provide information about the methods of evaluating
education, training, and experience obtained in military service in
order to meet the needs of the upcoming wave of armed service members
returning to civilian life.
  SEC. 2.  Section 710.2 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   710.2.  By January 1, 2014, and annually thereafter, every healing
arts board described in this division shall issue a written report
to the Department of Veterans Affairs that clearly details the
methods of evaluating the education, training, and experience
obtained in military service and whether that education, training,
and experience is applicable to the board's requirements for
licensure. This written report shall include, but not be limited to,
quantitative information about the number of service members who have
applied for and have used their military education, training, and
experience to fulfill the board's requirements for licensure.