BILL NUMBER: SB 1483INTRODUCED 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 inanaccrediteda 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.