CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 181Introduced by Senator ChangJanuary 28, 2019 An act to amend Section 104 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to the Department of Consumer Affairs. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 181, as introduced, Chang. Healing arts boards.Existing law creates various regulatory boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes health-related boards to adopt regulations requiring licensees to display their licenses in the locality in which they are treating patients and to make specified disclosures to patients.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that license display and disclosure provision.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe 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 departments jurisdiction that the department determines to be health-related may adopt regulations to require licensees to display their licenses or registrations in the locality in which they are treating patients, and to inform patients as to the identity of the regulatory agency they the patients may contact if they have any questions or complaints regarding the licensee. In complying with this requirement, those boards may take into consideration the particular settings in which licensees practice, or other circumstances which that may make the displaying or providing of information to the consumer extremely difficult for the licensee in their particular type of practice. CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 181Introduced by Senator ChangJanuary 28, 2019 An act to amend Section 104 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to the Department of Consumer Affairs. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 181, as introduced, Chang. Healing arts boards.Existing law creates various regulatory boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes health-related boards to adopt regulations requiring licensees to display their licenses in the locality in which they are treating patients and to make specified disclosures to patients.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that license display and disclosure provision.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 181 Introduced by Senator ChangJanuary 28, 2019 Introduced by Senator Chang January 28, 2019 An act to amend Section 104 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to the Department of Consumer Affairs. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST ## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 181, as introduced, Chang. Healing arts boards. Existing law creates various regulatory boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes health-related boards to adopt regulations requiring licensees to display their licenses in the locality in which they are treating patients and to make specified disclosures to patients.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that license display and disclosure provision. Existing law creates various regulatory boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes health-related boards to adopt regulations requiring licensees to display their licenses in the locality in which they are treating patients and to make specified disclosures to patients. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that license display and disclosure provision. ## Digest Key ## Bill Text 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 departments jurisdiction that the department determines to be health-related may adopt regulations to require licensees to display their licenses or registrations in the locality in which they are treating patients, and to inform patients as to the identity of the regulatory agency they the patients may contact if they have any questions or complaints regarding the licensee. In complying with this requirement, those boards may take into consideration the particular settings in which licensees practice, or other circumstances which that may make the displaying or providing of information to the consumer extremely difficult for the licensee in their particular type of practice. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: ## 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 departments jurisdiction that the department determines to be health-related may adopt regulations to require licensees to display their licenses or registrations in the locality in which they are treating patients, and to inform patients as to the identity of the regulatory agency they the patients may contact if they have any questions or complaints regarding the licensee. In complying with this requirement, those boards may take into consideration the particular settings in which licensees practice, or other circumstances which that may make the displaying or providing of information to the consumer extremely difficult for the licensee in their particular type of practice. SECTION 1. Section 104 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: ### SECTION 1. 104. All boards or other regulatory entities within the departments jurisdiction that the department determines to be health-related may adopt regulations to require licensees to display their licenses or registrations in the locality in which they are treating patients, and to inform patients as to the identity of the regulatory agency they the patients may contact if they have any questions or complaints regarding the licensee. In complying with this requirement, those boards may take into consideration the particular settings in which licensees practice, or other circumstances which that may make the displaying or providing of information to the consumer extremely difficult for the licensee in their particular type of practice. 104. All boards or other regulatory entities within the departments jurisdiction that the department determines to be health-related may adopt regulations to require licensees to display their licenses or registrations in the locality in which they are treating patients, and to inform patients as to the identity of the regulatory agency they the patients may contact if they have any questions or complaints regarding the licensee. In complying with this requirement, those boards may take into consideration the particular settings in which licensees practice, or other circumstances which that may make the displaying or providing of information to the consumer extremely difficult for the licensee in their particular type of practice. 104. All boards or other regulatory entities within the departments jurisdiction that the department determines to be health-related may adopt regulations to require licensees to display their licenses or registrations in the locality in which they are treating patients, and to inform patients as to the identity of the regulatory agency they the patients may contact if they have any questions or complaints regarding the licensee. In complying with this requirement, those boards may take into consideration the particular settings in which licensees practice, or other circumstances which that may make the displaying or providing of information to the consumer extremely difficult for the licensee in their particular type of practice. 104. All boards or other regulatory entities within the departments jurisdiction that the department determines to be health-related may adopt regulations to require licensees to display their licenses or registrations in the locality in which they are treating patients, and to inform patients as to the identity of the regulatory agency they the patients may contact if they have any questions or complaints regarding the licensee. In complying with this requirement, those boards may take into consideration the particular settings in which licensees practice, or other circumstances which that may make the displaying or providing of information to the consumer extremely difficult for the licensee in their particular type of practice.