California Senate Bill SB52 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 52INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Walters DECEMBER 19, 2014 An act to amend Section 104 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to regulatory boards. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 52, as introduced, Walters. Regulatory boards: healing arts. Existing law creates various regulatory boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes health-related boards to adopt regulations requiring a licensee to display his or her license or registration in the locality in which he or she is treating patients and to make specified disclosures to patients. This bill would make technical changes to that provision. 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 104 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 104. All boards or other regulatory entities within the department's jurisdiction that the department determines to be  health-related   health related  may adopt regulations to require  licensees   a licensee  to display their licenses or registrations   his or her license or   registration  in the locality in which  they are   he or she is  treating patients, and to inform patients as to the identity of the regulatory agency they may contact if they have any questions or complaints regarding the licensee. In complying with this requirement,  those   these  boards may take into consideration the particular settings in which  licensees practice   a licensee practices  , or other circumstances  which   that  may make  the  displaying or providing of  information to the consumer extremely difficult for the licensee in  their   his or her  particular type of practice.