BILL NUMBER: AB 1932	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 17, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member  Cook   Gorell

    (   Coauthor:   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 amended,  Cook   Gorell  .
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  and the  
Legislature, as specified,  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.   (a)    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
 and to the Legislature  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. 
   (b) (1) The requirement to submit a report to the Legislature
under subdivision (a) shall be inoperative on January 1, 2018,
pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.  
   (2) A report to the Legislature shall be submitted in compliance
with Section 9795 of the Government Code.