Amended IN Assembly March 18, 2024 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 3119Introduced by Assembly Member LowFebruary 16, 2024 An act to amend Section 311 of add Section 2191.6 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations. healing arts.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 3119, as amended, Low. Department of Consumer Affairs: director: powers and duties. Physicians and surgeons: continuing medical education: Long COVID.Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons. The act requires the board to adopt and administer standards for the continuing education of licensed physicians and surgeons and requires the board to require each licensed physician and surgeon to demonstrate satisfaction of the continuing education requirements at specified intervals. The act requires the board, in determining its continuing education requirements, to consider including courses on specified matters.This bill would require the board to consider including in its continuing education requirements a course in Long COVID.Under existing law, the Department of Consumer Affairs is comprised of various boards, bureaus, commissions, committees, and similarly constituted agencies that license and regulate the practice of various professions and vocations. Existing law authorizes the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs to create an interdepartmental committee to assist and advise the director in the implementation of the directors duties, as provided.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 2191.6 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:2191.6. In determining its continuing education requirements, the board shall consider including a course in Long COVID.SECTION 1.Section 311 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:311.The director may create an interdepartmental committee to assist and advise the director in the implementation of the directors duties. The members of the committee shall consist of the heads of state departments, or their designees. Members of the committee shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for the expenses actually and necessarily incurred by them in the performance of their duties.
Amended IN Assembly March 18, 2024 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 3119Introduced by Assembly Member LowFebruary 16, 2024 An act to amend Section 311 of add Section 2191.6 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations. healing arts.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 3119, as amended, Low. Department of Consumer Affairs: director: powers and duties. Physicians and surgeons: continuing medical education: Long COVID.Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons. The act requires the board to adopt and administer standards for the continuing education of licensed physicians and surgeons and requires the board to require each licensed physician and surgeon to demonstrate satisfaction of the continuing education requirements at specified intervals. The act requires the board, in determining its continuing education requirements, to consider including courses on specified matters.This bill would require the board to consider including in its continuing education requirements a course in Long COVID.Under existing law, the Department of Consumer Affairs is comprised of various boards, bureaus, commissions, committees, and similarly constituted agencies that license and regulate the practice of various professions and vocations. Existing law authorizes the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs to create an interdepartmental committee to assist and advise the director in the implementation of the directors duties, as provided.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO
Amended IN Assembly March 18, 2024
Amended IN Assembly March 18, 2024
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3119
Introduced by Assembly Member LowFebruary 16, 2024
Introduced by Assembly Member Low
February 16, 2024
An act to amend Section 311 of add Section 2191.6 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations. healing arts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3119, as amended, Low. Department of Consumer Affairs: director: powers and duties. Physicians and surgeons: continuing medical education: Long COVID.
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons. The act requires the board to adopt and administer standards for the continuing education of licensed physicians and surgeons and requires the board to require each licensed physician and surgeon to demonstrate satisfaction of the continuing education requirements at specified intervals. The act requires the board, in determining its continuing education requirements, to consider including courses on specified matters.This bill would require the board to consider including in its continuing education requirements a course in Long COVID.Under existing law, the Department of Consumer Affairs is comprised of various boards, bureaus, commissions, committees, and similarly constituted agencies that license and regulate the practice of various professions and vocations. Existing law authorizes the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs to create an interdepartmental committee to assist and advise the director in the implementation of the directors duties, as provided.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons. The act requires the board to adopt and administer standards for the continuing education of licensed physicians and surgeons and requires the board to require each licensed physician and surgeon to demonstrate satisfaction of the continuing education requirements at specified intervals. The act requires the board, in determining its continuing education requirements, to consider including courses on specified matters.
This bill would require the board to consider including in its continuing education requirements a course in Long COVID.
Under existing law, the Department of Consumer Affairs is comprised of various boards, bureaus, commissions, committees, and similarly constituted agencies that license and regulate the practice of various professions and vocations. Existing law authorizes the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs to create an interdepartmental committee to assist and advise the director in the implementation of the directors duties, as provided.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 2191.6 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:2191.6. In determining its continuing education requirements, the board shall consider including a course in Long COVID.SECTION 1.Section 311 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:311.The director may create an interdepartmental committee to assist and advise the director in the implementation of the directors duties. The members of the committee shall consist of the heads of state departments, or their designees. Members of the committee shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for the expenses actually and necessarily incurred by them in the performance of their duties.
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 2191.6 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:2191.6. In determining its continuing education requirements, the board shall consider including a course in Long COVID.
SECTION 1. Section 2191.6 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:
### SECTION 1.
2191.6. In determining its continuing education requirements, the board shall consider including a course in Long COVID.
2191.6. In determining its continuing education requirements, the board shall consider including a course in Long COVID.
2191.6. In determining its continuing education requirements, the board shall consider including a course in Long COVID.
2191.6. In determining its continuing education requirements, the board shall consider including a course in Long COVID.
The director may create an interdepartmental committee to assist and advise the director in the implementation of the directors duties. The members of the committee shall consist of the heads of state departments, or their designees. Members of the committee shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for the expenses actually and necessarily incurred by them in the performance of their duties.