AB 2183, as introduced, Bocanegra. Vocational nursing.
Under the Vocational Nursing Practice Act, the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians licenses and regulates vocational nurses and psychiatric technicians. The act requires the board to prepare and maintain a list of approved schools of vocational nursing in this state. The act specifies requirements for board members, including that one member be a licensed vocational nurse or registered nurse having at least 5 years’ experience as a teacher or administrator in an accredited school of vocational nursing.
This bill would, instead, require that one member have that teaching experience at a board-approved school.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 2842 of the Business and Professions
2Code is amended to read:
(a) Each member of the board shall be a citizen of the
4United States and a resident of the State of California. The board
5shall have the following composition:
P2 1(1) Two members shall be duly licensed vocational nurses who
2have been licensed for a period of not less than three years prior
3to appointment.
4(2) Two members shall be licensed psychiatric technicians, each
5of whom shall have had not less than five years’ experience in a
6psychiatric hospital, or in a psychiatric unit of a hospital licensed
7by the State Department of Health Services, or a private institution
8licensed by the State Department of Health Services.
9(3) One member shall be a licensed vocational nurse or
10registered nurse who shall have had not less than five years’
11experience as a teacher or administrator inbegin delete an accreditedend deletebegin insert a
12board-approvedend insert school of vocational nursing.
13(4) Six members shall be public members who are not licentiates
14of the board or any other board under this division or of any board
15referred to in Sections 1000 and 3600.
16(b) No person may serve as a member of the board for more
17than two consecutive terms.
18(c) Per diem and expenses of members of the board who are
19licensed psychiatric technicians shall
be paid solely from revenues
20received pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 4500)
21of Division 2.
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