BILL NUMBER: SB 1454	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Stone

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 4001 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1454, as introduced, Stone. Pharmacy.
   The Pharmacy Law establishes in the Department of Consumer Affairs
the California State Board of Pharmacy, which consists of 13
members.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

   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 4001 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   4001.  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a
California State Board of Pharmacy in which the administration and
enforcement of this chapter is vested. The board  consists
  is composed  of 13 members.
   (b) The Governor shall appoint seven competent pharmacists who
reside in different parts of the state to serve as members of the
board. The Governor shall appoint four public members, and the Senate
Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly shall each
appoint a public member who shall not be a licensee of the board, any
other board under this division, or any board referred to in Section
1000 or 3600.
   (c) At least five of the seven pharmacist appointees to the board
shall be pharmacists who are actively engaged in the practice of
pharmacy. Additionally, the membership of the board shall include at
least one pharmacist representative from each of the following
practice settings: an acute care hospital, an independent community
pharmacy, a chain community pharmacy, and a long-term health care or
skilled nursing facility. The pharmacist appointees shall also
include a pharmacist who is a member of a labor union that represents
pharmacists. For the purposes of this subdivision, a "chain
community pharmacy" means a chain of 75 or more stores in California
under the same ownership, and an "independent community pharmacy"
means a pharmacy owned by a person or entity who owns no more than
four pharmacies in California.
   (d) Members of the board shall be appointed for a term of four
years. No person shall serve as a member of the board for more than
two consecutive terms. Each member shall hold office until the
appointment and qualification of his or her successor or until one
year shall have elapsed since the expiration of the term for which
the member was appointed, whichever first occurs. Vacancies occurring
shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term.
   (e) Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses
as provided in Section 103.
   (f) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2017, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2017, deletes or extends
that date. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the repeal of
this section renders the board subject to review by the appropriate
policy committees of the Legislature.