BILL NUMBER: SB 924	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 2620 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 924, as introduced, Wyland. Physical therapy.
   Existing law, the Physical Therapy Practice Act, provides for the
licensure and regulation of physical therapists by the Physical
Therapy Board of California within the Department of Consumer
Affairs. Existing law defines "physical therapy" to mean, among other
things, the art and science of physical or corrective rehabilitation
or of physical or corrective treatment of any bodily or mental
condition of any person by the use of the physical, chemical, and
other properties of heat, light, water, electricity, sound, massage,
and active, passive, and resistive exercise.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change 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 2620 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2620.  (a) Physical therapy  means   shall
mean  the art and science of physical or corrective
rehabilitation or of physical or corrective treatment of any bodily
or mental condition of any person by the use of the physical,
chemical, and other properties of heat, light, water, electricity,
sound, massage, and active, passive, and resistive exercise, and
shall include physical therapy evaluation, treatment planning,
instruction and consultative services. The practice of physical
therapy includes the promotion and maintenance of physical fitness to
enhance the bodily movement related health and wellness of
individuals through the use of physical therapy interventions. The
use of roentgen rays and radioactive materials, for diagnostic and
therapeutic purposes, and the use of electricity for surgical
purposes, including cauterization, are not authorized under the term
"physical therapy" as used in this chapter, and a license issued
pursuant to this chapter does not authorize the diagnosis of disease.

   (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict or
prohibit other healing arts practitioners licensed or registered
under this division from practice within the scope of their license
or registration.