Professions and vocations.

(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts licensees by various boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs, including, but not limited to, the Medical Board of California, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, the Board of Registered Nursing, the State Board of Optometry, the Respiratory Care Board of California, and the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing law requires or authorizes these boards, with the exception of the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, to appoint an executive director or officer. Under existing law, these provisions will become inoperative on July 1, 2010, and will be repealed on January 1, 2011. Under this bill, these provisions would become inoperative and be repealed on January 1, 2013. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes to similar provisions of the Naturopathic Doctors Act. (2) Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacies, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, wholesalers of dangerous drugs or devices, and others by the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing law imposes fees on these persons and pharmacies for, among other things, application, examination, licensure, and licensure renewal. Under existing law, these fees are fixed by the board based on a fee schedule that sets forth the minimum and maximum fees. This bill would increase the minimum and maximum fees in that schedule and would make other conforming changes. Because the bill would increase fees that would be deposited into the Pharmacy Board Contingent Fund, which is continuously appropriated, the bill would make an appropriation. (3) Existing law provides for the certification of interior designers, and repeals these provisions on January 1, 2010. This bill would instead repeal these provisions on January 1, 2013. (4) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 4110 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 819, to be operative if SB 819 and this bill become effective on or before January 1, 2010, and this bill is chaptered last. (5) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 4160 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 821, to be operative if SB 821 and this bill become effective on or before January 1, 2010, and this bill is chaptered last.