Professions and vocations: regulation.

(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts licensees by various boards, as defined, within the Department of Consumer Affairs, including the California Board of Occupational Therapy and the Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California. Existing law requires the Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California to appoint an executive officer. Under existing law, those provisions regarding the California Board of Occupational Therapy will become inoperative on July 1, 2013, and will be repealed on January 1, 2014. Those provisions governing the Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California will become inoperative on July 1, 2011, and will be repealed on January 1, 2012. Under this bill, the provisions relating to the California Board of Occupational Therapy would become inoperative and be repealed on January 1, 2014, and the provisions concerning the Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California would become inoperative and be repealed on January 1, 2013. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of certain healing arts licensees by the Medical Board of California, the State Board of Optometry, and the Respiratory Care Board of California. Existing law authorizes these boards to employ or appoint an executive director or executive officer. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2013. Existing law makes the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board responsible for the licensure of speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and hearing aid dispensers and authorizes the board to appoint an executive officer. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2012. Under existing law, the Board of Psychology is responsible for the licensure and regulation of psychologists and is authorized to employ an executive officer. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2011. This bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2014. Existing law provides for the regulation of registered dispensing opticians by the Medical Board of California and provides that the powers and duties of the board in that regard shall be subject to review by the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection as if those provisions were scheduled to become inoperative on July 1, 2003, and repealed on January 1, 2004. This bill would make the powers and duties of the board subject to that review as if those provisions were scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2014. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of specified healing arts licensees by the Acupuncture Board and the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) . Existing law authorizes the Acupuncture Board to appoint an executive officer and requires BBS to appoint an executive officer. Under existing law, these provisions are repealed on January 1, 2011. Under this bill, these provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2013. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of registered nurses by the Board of Registered Nursing and requires the board to appoint an executive officer. Under existing law, these provisions are repealed on January 1, 2013. This bill would instead repeal these provisions on January 1, 2012. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of naturopathic doctors by the Naturopathic Medicine Committee within the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. Existing law provides that these regulatory provisions are repealed on January 1, 2013. This bill would provide that these regulatory provisions are repealed on January 1, 2014. (2) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the department, including, the California Board of Accountancy, the California Architects Board, the Landscape Architects Technical Committee, Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, and the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind. Existing law requires or authorizes, with certain exceptions, these boards to appoint an executive officer or a registrar. With respect to the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, existing law authorizes the Governor to appoint the chief of the bureau. Under existing law, these provisions will become inoperative on July 1, 2011, and will be repealed on January 1, 2012. This bill would make these provisions, inoperative and repealed on January 1, 2012. Existing law authorizes the California Architects Board to implement an intern development program until July 1, 2011. This bill would authorize the board to implement that program until July 1, 2012. Existing law establishes in the Department of Pesticide Regulation a Structural Pest Control Board and requires the board, with the approval of the director of the department, to appoint a registrar. These provisions shall become inoperative on July 1, 2011, and are repealed on January 1, 2012. This bill would make those provisions inoperative and repealed on January 1, 2015. Existing law provides for the certification and regulation of interior designers until January 1, 2013. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions to January 1, 2014. Existing law provides for the regulation of certified common interest development managers and tax preparers and repeals these provisions on January 1, 2012. This bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2015. Under existing law, there is the Contractors' State License Board within the department and it is responsible for the licensure and regulation of contractors and existing law requires the board to appoint a registrar. Under existing law, these provisions are repealed on January 1, 2011. This bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2012. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of barbering and cosmetology by the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology and existing law authorizes the board to appoint an executive officer. Under existing law, these provisions are repealed on January 1, 2012. This bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2014. Under existing law, the practice of shorthand reporting is regulated by the Court Reporters Board of California and existing law authorizes the board to appoint committees. These provisions are repealed on January 1, 2011. This bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2013. Under existing law, the State Athletic Commission is responsible for licensing and regulating boxing, kickboxing, and martial arts matches and is required to appoint an executive officer. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2011. This bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2012. (3) Existing law, the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009, provides for the regulation of private postsecondary educational institutions by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law repeals that act on January 1, 2016. This bill would repeal the act on January 1, 2015. (4) Existing law, until January 1, 2016, provides for the voluntary certification of massage practitioners and massage therapists by a nonprofit Massage Therapy Organization that is governed by a board of directors, and imposes certain duties on that organization. Existing law prohibits a city, county, or city and county from enacting an ordinance that requires a certificate holder to obtain any other license, permit, or other authorization to engage in the practice of massage in addition to the certificate issued by the organization. This bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2015. The bill would specify that establishing a uniform standard of certification and regulation of massage practitioners and massage therapists is a matter of statewide concern, and the massage therapy provisions apply to all cities and counties, including charter cities and charter counties. (5) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 2570.19 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 999 and SB 1489, to be operative if SB 999 and SB 1489, or either of them, and this bill become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is enacted last.