BILL NUMBER: SB 1483	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Steinberg

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 2842 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1483, as introduced, Steinberg. Vocational nursing.
   Existing law, the Vocational Nursing Practice Act, provides for
the licensure and regulation of the practice of vocational nursing by
the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the
State of California. The board is comprised of 11 members, including
one member who is a licensed vocational nurse or registered nurse
with specified experience as a teacher or administrator in an
accredited school of vocational nursing.
   This bill would instead require that experience to have been
obtained in a board-approved school of vocational nursing. The bill
would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes.
   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 2842 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2842.  (a) Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the
United States and a resident of the State of California. The board
shall have the following composition:
   (1) Two members shall be duly licensed vocational nurses who have
been licensed for a period of not less than three years prior to
appointment.
   (2) Two members shall be licensed psychiatric technicians, each of
whom shall have had not less than five years' experience in a
psychiatric hospital, or in a psychiatric unit of a hospital licensed
by the State Department of Health Care Services, or a private
institution licensed by the State Department of Health Care Services.

   (3) One member shall be a licensed vocational nurse or registered
nurse who shall have had not less than five years' experience as a
teacher or administrator in  an   accredited
  a board-approved  school of vocational nursing.
   (4) Six members shall be public members who are not licentiates of
the board or any other board under this division or of any board
referred to in Sections 1000 and 3600.
   (b) No person may serve as a member of the board for more than two
consecutive terms.
   (c) Per diem and expenses of members of the board who are licensed
psychiatric technicians shall be paid solely from revenues received
pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 4500) of Division 2.