BILL NUMBER: SB 667	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator  Wyland   Runner 

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section  500   3640  of
the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 667, as amended,  Wyland   Runner  .
 Healing arts.   Naturopathic doctor.  

   Existing law, the Naturopathic Doctors Act, provides for the
licensure and regulation of naturopathic doctors by the Naturopathic
Medicine Committee in the Osteopathic Medical Board of California.
Existing law sets forth the scope of practice of naturopathic
doctors. Existing law authorizes a naturopathic doctor to furnish and
order drugs under standardized procedures and protocols developed by
the naturopathic doctor and his or her supervising physician and
surgeon, as specified. Existing law provides that the authority to
use all routes for furnishing prescription drugs shall be consistent
with other specified oversight and supervision requirements. 

   This bill would delete that provision and would instead provide
that nothing in the act prohibits a naturopathic doctor from
ordering, prescribing, or administering a nonprescription substance
that becomes a substance requiring a prescription based solely on its
route of administration.  
   Under existing law, if the register or book of registration of the
Medical Board of California, the Dental Board of California, or the
California State Board of Pharmacy is destroyed, as specified, the
board may reproduce it.  
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision. 
   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 3640 of the   Business
and Professions Code  is amended to read: 
   3640.  (a) A naturopathic doctor may order and perform physical
and laboratory examinations for diagnostic purposes, including, but
not limited to, phlebotomy, clinical laboratory tests, speculum
examinations, orificial examinations, and physiological function
tests.
   (b) A naturopathic doctor may order diagnostic imaging studies,
including X-ray, ultrasound, mammogram, bone densitometry, and
others, consistent with naturopathic training as determined by the
committee, but shall refer the studies to an appropriately licensed
health care professional to conduct the study and interpret the
results.
   (c) A naturopathic doctor may dispense, administer, order, and
prescribe or perform the following:
   (1) Food, extracts of food, nutraceuticals, vitamins, amino acids,
minerals, enzymes, botanicals and their extracts, botanical
medicines, homeopathic medicines, all dietary supplements and
nonprescription drugs as defined by the federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act, consistent with the routes of administration identified
in subdivision (d).
   (2) Hot or cold hydrotherapy; naturopathic physical medicine
inclusive of the manual use of massage, stretching, resistance, or
joint play examination but exclusive of small amplitude movement at
or beyond the end range of normal joint motion; electromagnetic
energy; colon hydrotherapy; and therapeutic exercise.
   (3) Devices, including, but not limited to, therapeutic devices,
barrier contraception, and durable medical equipment.
   (4) Health education and health counseling.
   (5) Repair and care incidental to superficial lacerations and
abrasions, except suturing.
   (6) Removal of foreign bodies located in the superficial tissues.
   (d) A naturopathic doctor may utilize routes of administration
that include oral, nasal, auricular, ocular, rectal, vaginal,
transdermal, intradermal, subcutaneous, intravenous, and
intramuscular.
   (e) The committee may establish regulations regarding ocular or
intravenous routes of administration that are consistent with the
education and training of a naturopathic doctor.
   (f) Nothing in this section shall exempt a naturopathic doctor
from meeting applicable licensure requirements for the performance of
clinical laboratory tests.
   (g)  The authority to use all routes for furnishing
prescription drugs as described in Section 3640.5 shall be consistent
with the oversight and supervision requirements of Section 2836.1
  Nothing in this   chapter shall prohibit a
naturopathic doctor from ordering, prescribing, or administering a
nonprescription substance that becomes a substance requiring a
prescription based solely on its route of administration  .

  SECTION 1.    Section 500 of the Business and
Professions Code is amended to read:
   500.  Whenever the register or book of registration of the Medical
Board of California, the Dental Board of California, or the
California State Board of Pharmacy is destroyed by fire or other
public calamity, the board, whose duty it is to keep the register or
book, may reproduce it so that there may be shown as nearly as
possible the record existing in the original at the time of
destruction.