Clinical laboratories: chiropractors.

Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates clinical laboratories and certain clinical laboratory personnel performing clinical laboratory tests or examinations, subject to certain exceptions, including individuals who perform clinical laboratory tests or examinations approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for sale as an over-the-counter test kit. Under the Chiropractic Act, enacted by an initiative measure, the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners licenses and regulates chiropractors. This bill would exempt chiropractors listed on the federal Department of Transportation National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners who perform urine specific gravity, urine protein, urine blood, and urine sugar tests as those tests relate to the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners, as adopted by the United States Department of Transportation, that are classified as waived clinical laboratory tests under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) for the sole purpose of completing the Department of Motor Vehicles medical examination report, if the chiropractor obtains a valid certificate of waiver and complies with all other requirements for the performance of waived clinical laboratory tests under applicable federal regulations. The bill would require a chiropractor who receives an abnormal finding, to refer the applicant to the applicant's primary care physician and surgeon. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.