BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    �



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          Date of Hearing:   April 30, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

                    AB 2102 (Ting) - As Amended:  April 24, 2014 

          Policy Committee:                              Business and  
          Professions  Vote:                            10-3

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

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN), the  
          Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians (BVNPT),  
          the Physician Assistant Board (PAB), and the Respiratory Care  
          Board of California (RCBC) to collect demographic data on their  
          respective licensees and provide that data to the Office of  
          Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD).   

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Potential one-time costs of up to $90,000 (various fee-supported  
          special funds) if programming changes are necessary to the  
          information technology (IT) system supporting licensure  
          functions. 

           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose  . This bill will require various boards to report  
            demographic information on their licensees to OSHPD, in order  
            to allow OSHPD to collect more complete and consistent data on  
            California's health care workforce.  With that data, policy  
            makers will ideally be better able to identify geographic  
            areas of the state where there are shortages of certain health  
            care workers with cultural and linguistic competencies.  This  
            bill is sponsored by the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network  
            and the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California.

           2)Background  . OSHPD collects data about the state's health care  
            workforce, and provides data and analysis to inform state  
            health workforce policy.  The author's office reports that the  
            specific boards listed above were chosen because the Medical  








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            Board of California and Dental Board of California already  
            collect this demographic information, and the remaining boards  
            in this bill represent those professionals who work closely  
            with patients.  

           3)Amendments  specify the data is to be collected every two years  
            to coincide with the license renewal cycle, and make race and  
            ethnicity reporting optional.

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