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                                                                  SB 1575
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          Date of Hearing:   August 8, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

            SB 1575 (Committee on Business and Professions) - As Amended:  
                                   August 6, 2012 

          Policy Committee:                             Business and 
          Professions  Vote:                            9-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          Yes    Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY 

          This bill contains a number of minor, technical, or 
          non-substantive changes to law governing various healing arts 
          boards.  Specifically, this bill:

          1)Requires approved dental hygiene educational programs to 
            register extramural dental facilities with the Dental Hygiene 
            Committee of California (DHCC).

          2)Requires the DHCC to impose the same application denial and 
            license revocation procedures that currently exist for the 
            Dental Board of California, on applicants or licensees who are 
            registered sex offenders.

          3)Requires certain licensee information be collected and posted 
            to the DHCC web site.

          4)Includes other minor, technical, or non-substantive changes to 
            law governing the Medical Board of California, nurse midwives, 
            the Board of Podiatric Medicine, the State Board of Optometry, 
            respiratory care practitioners, the Board of Pharmacy, and the 
            Board of Behavioral Sciences.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          1)Minor one-time costs, under $50,000, to the DHCC to comply 
            with provisions (1) through (3), above. 

          2)Negligible costs to other healing arts boards.









                                                                  SB 1575
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           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  . This bill makes numerous non-controversial, minor, 
            non-substantive changes to various provisions pertaining to 
            the health-related regulatory boards.  Consolidating the 
            provisions in one bill is designed to relieve the various 
            licensing Boards, bureaus and professions from the necessity 
            and burden of having separate measures for a number of 
            non-controversial revisions.  

           2)Related Legislation  . SB 1202 (Leno), pending before this 
            committee, makes a number of changes regarding the licensure 
            and regulation of dental hygienists by the DHCC.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Lisa Murawski / APPR. / (916) 319-2081