Existing law, the Physical Therapy Practice Act, creates the Physical Therapy Board of California and makes it responsible for the licensure and regulation of physical therapists. The act defines the term "physical therapy" for its purposes and makes it a crime to violate any of its provisions. The act authorizes the board to suspend, revoke, or impose probationary conditions on a license, certificate, or approval issued under the act for unprofessional conduct, as specified. This bill would specify that patients may access physical therapy treatment directly, and would, in those circumstances, require a physical therapist to refer his or her patient to another specified healing arts practitioner if the physical therapist has reason to believe the patient has a condition requiring treatment or services beyond that scope of practice, to disclose to the patient any financial interest he or she has in treating the patient, and, with the patient's written authorization, to notify the patient's physician and surgeon, if any, that the physical therapist is treating the patient. The bill would provide that failure to comply with these provisions constitutes unprofessional conduct subject to disciplinary action by the board. Because the bill would specify additional requirements under the Physical Therapy Practice Act, the violation of which would be a crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
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(1) Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the Electricity Oversight Board with jurisdiction related to energy matters. Existing law provides the Public Utilities Commission with jurisdiction over the certification of natural gas and electric facilities. Existing law also provides the Office of Planning and Research, the Department of General Services, and the Office of the State Architect with jurisdiction over certain energy-related matters. Existing law provides the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission with the jurisdiction over the certification of thermal powerplants. This bill would abolish the State Energy Resources and Conservation Commission and the Electricity Oversight Board. The bill would create the Department of Energy, headed by a Secretary of Energy, and would create the California Energy Board and the Office of Energy Market Oversight within the department. The bill would provide for the creation of various divisions and subdivisions as deemed necessary by the secretary. The secretary would be appointed by, and hold office at the pleasure of, the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate. The bill would require the Governor to appoint the initial secretary by January 31, 2010. The bill would authorize the Governor to appoint an Assistant Secretary of Energy who would serve at the pleasure of the Governor. The bill would require the department to create a legal subcommittee comprised of specified members to develop a single statewide position on litigation concerning energy matters. The bill would provide that the California Energy Board consists of the following members: the Secretary of Energy who would be the chair of the board, 4 members of the public with qualifications, as specified, appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the Senate, the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, and the president of the California Public Utilities Commission. The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, and the president of the California Public Utilities Commission would serve as ex officio, nonvoting members of the board. The bill would specify that the public members shall serve for a term of 4 years. The bill would require the board to nominate for appointment by the Governor a public adviser to the board who would serve for a 3-year term and may be removed upon the joint concurrence of 4 board members and the Governor. The bill would vest the Office of Energy Market Oversight with the powers, duties, responsibilities, obligations, liabilities, and jurisdiction of the Electricity Oversight Board and add to the functions of the office. The bill would vest the new department and the California Energy Board with the powers, duties, responsibilities, obligations, liabilities, jurisdiction, and rights and privileges of the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, as specified. The bill would transfer jurisdiction over the certification of thermal powerplants and grant jurisdiction over certification of specified solar nonthermal powerplants to the California Energy Board. The bill would also transfer jurisdiction of certain energy-related matters from the Office of Planning and Research, the Department of General Services, and the Office of the State Architect to the Department of Energy or the California Energy Commission, as specified. The bill would also rename the California Consumer Power and Conservation Authority Fund as the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Fund. The bill would transfer all responsibilities with respect to the certification of certain electric transmission facilities from the Public Utilities Commission to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the California Energy Board. The bill would require the Department of Energy, on or before January 1, 2011, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission and the Independent System Operator, to submit to the Governor and the Legislature a strategic plan identifying administrative and statutory measures that would improve the siting and licensing process for electric transmission lines. (2) Existing law requires a person proposing to construct a thermal powerplant or electric transmission line on a site to submit to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission a notice of intention to file an application for the certification of the site. This bill would repeal this requirement. (3) Existing law prohibits the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission from certifying a facility that adds generating capacity to a potential multiple facility site in excess of the maximum allowable capacity determined by the commission. This bill would repeal this prohibition. (4) Existing law requires the Department of Community Services and Development to administer federal funds for programs to provide energy assistance to qualified low-income households and to administer the community services block grant program. This bill would transfer the above-described duties and responsibilities of the Department of Community Services and Development, on and after January 1, 2013, to the Department of Energy. (5) Existing law establishes grant and loan programs to provide financial assistance to specified entities for constructing and retrofitting buildings to be more energy efficient. This bill would require the Department of Finance to conduct an independent audit of those programs and to provide an audit report to the Legislature no later than March 1 of each year in which an appropriation has been made to implement those programs. (6) Existing law established the Katz Safe Schoolbus Clean Fuel Efficiency Demonstration Program to assist local educational agencies in replacing older schoolbuses with schoolbuses meeting federal safety standards that operate with greater efficiency and fewer adverse air emissions. This bill would repeal this program. (7) Existing law establishes the Small Business Energy Efficient Refrigeration Program and the State Solar Medallion Passive Design Competition. This bill would repeal the program and competition. (8) The bill would make conforming changes in existing law. (9) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 19, 2008. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on December 19, 2008, pursuant to the California Constitution. (10) The bill would provide that the provisions of the bill are severable.
Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 13 of the 2007–08 Regular Session, as amended by Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 30 of the 2007–08 Regular Session, would, if approved by the voters, make certain changes relating to state finance. This measure would withdraw Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 30 from the consideration of the voters. Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 13 of the 2007–08 Regular Session, if approved by the voters, would rename the Budget Stabilization Account the Budget Stabilization Fund and would provide that all moneys in the fund not designated for deposit into the Deficit Recovery Bond Retirement Sinking Fund Subaccount may be transferred to the General Fund by a statute that contains no unrelated provisions or may be loaned to the General Fund to address a General Fund cashflow deficit. That measure would further require the Director of Finance, on or before May 29 of each year, to report to the Legislature and the Governor an estimate of the amount of General Fund revenues, transfers, and balances available from the prior fiscal year for the current fiscal year and the impact of tax legislation adopted during the current fiscal year subsequent to the enactment of the Budget Bill. In addition, that measure would provide that if, pursuant to a formula based on those estimates, there are unanticipated revenues in the current fiscal year, those revenues may be used only for specified purposes, and in a specified order of priority. This measure would amend those provisions to also create the Supplemental Budget Stabilization Account, and to establish the Supplemental Education Payment Account if a constitutional provision is added to provide for supplemental education payments, as specified. The measure would also provide that, apart from a transfer made for the purpose of responding to an emergency declared by the Governor, as defined, or a loan to meet General Fund cash requirements which would be repaid within a fiscal year, the total amount that may be transferred from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the General Fund for any fiscal year shall not exceed the amount derived by subtracting the General Fund revenues, transfers, and balances available from the prior fiscal year for that fiscal year from the expenditure forecast amount for the current fiscal year, determined as total General Fund expenditures for the immediately preceding fiscal year adjusted for changes in population and the cost of living. In addition, this measure would direct the Controller to transfer, on October 1 of each year beginning in 2011, from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the Supplemental Education Payment Account, if established, a sum equal to 1.5% of the estimated General Fund revenues for the current fiscal year until a specified total amount is met. After that amount is met, or if the Supplemental Education Payment Account is not established, the Controller would instead be required to transfer that sum on October 1 of each year to the Supplemental Budget Stabilization Account, from which appropriations could be made only for capital outlay purposes or to retire bonded indebtedness of the state. This measure would further provide that, commencing with the 2010–11 fiscal year, unanticipated revenues shall be determined pursuant to a formula either based on estimates of General Fund revenues for the current fiscal year and the revenue forecast amount for the current fiscal year, as defined, or based on estimates of General Fund revenues, transfers, and balances available from the prior fiscal year for the current fiscal year and the expenditure forecast amount for the current fiscal year. The measure would also modify the education funding purposes for which unanticipated revenues could be expended.
(1) Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt procedures for determining the compliance of any system designed for the control of gasoline vapor emissions during gasoline marketing operations, including storage and transfer operations, and additional performance standards to ensure that systems for the control of gasoline vapors from motor vehicle fueling operations do not cause excessive spillage and emissions. Existing law prohibits the state board from requiring a gasoline dispensing facility that meets certain requirements from undergoing an Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until April 1, 2011. This bill would exempt a gasoline dispensing facility that does not meet these requirements from penalties for failing to undergo an Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until April 1, 2010. (2) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 19, 2008. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on December 19, 2008, pursuant to the California Constitution.
(1) The Bushy Lake Preservation Act declares that the County of Sacramento and the City of Sacramento have developed the American River Parkway, a 23-mile open-space greenbelt in the lower American River flood plain. This bill would declare instead that the County of Sacramento and the City of Sacramento have adopted by resolutions, and the City of Rancho Cordova has endorsed by resolution, the American River Parkway Plan, a 29-mile open-space greenbelt in the American River flood plain. (2) The Bushy Lake Preservation Act requires the California Exposition and State Fair Board of Directors to preserve, for public day use and enjoyment, the California Exposition flood plain in a manner consistent with the definition of a state park. The act requires the California Exposition and State Fair Board of Directors to preserve the Bushy Lake area consistent with the features of a natural preserve. This bill also would require the California Exposition and State Fair Board of Directors to preserve the California Exposition flood plain in accordance with the American River Parkway Plan as an element of the Sacramento County General Plan. The bill additionally would require the California Exposition and State Fair Board of Directors to manage, or provide, pursuant to an agreement with the American River Parkway Manager, for the management of, the Bushy Lake area in accordance with land use designations and policies of the American River Parkway Plan. (3) The Bushy Lake Preservation Act authorizes the California Exposition and State Fair Board of Directors to permit parking only during the State Fair and only on specified land. This bill would further specify that the land is on approximately 11 unsurfaced acres, and would authorize parking on that land for specified additional purposes so long as the total number of parking days does not exceed 34 days per year. The bill would require one acre of the specified land to be open to parkway users for public access if certain conditions are met. (4) The Urban American River Parkway Preservation Act defines the American River Parkway Plan as the revised, updated management plans for the lower American River adopted by resolutions of the City of Sacramento and the County of Sacramento. The act declares that the American River Parkway and its environs contribute to the quality of life within the City of Sacramento. This bill would revise the definition of the American River Parkway Plan to include revised and updated plans adopted by the City of Sacramento and the County of Sacramento, including an endorsement by the City of Rancho Cordova adopted by resolution. This bill would declare that the American River Parkway and its environs also contribute to the quality of life within the City of Rancho Cordova. (5) The Urban American River Parkway Preservation Act permits in-line skating on the American River Parkway on a trial basis until January 1, 2001, and if the board of supervisors and the city council determine that the trial was successful, in-line skating may be added to the list of permitted recreational uses for the parkway on a permanent basis upon approval of the board of supervisors and city council. This bill would delete this provision. (6) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law regulates the taking or possession of birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, and reptiles. Under existing law, the Department of Fish and Game performs various functions with regards to the taking of fish and game. Existing law generally provides that a violation of fish and game laws is a crime. This bill would provide that the taking of birds by a public use airport certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration operating in the state pursuant to a federal depredation permit, does not violate state fish and game laws if the taking is in compliance with that permit and the taking occurs on land owned or leased by the airport that is not habitat mitigation or conservation land, and there is no taking of a fully protected, candidate, threatened, or endangered species. The bill would specify that a taking is only authorized to relieve or prevent injurious situations affecting public safety and can only be performed as part of an integrated wildlife management program that emphasizes nonlethal management techniques. The bill would require the airport to provide to the department all federal depredation permits and all federal reports required pursuant to any federal depredation permit or wildlife hazard management plan, or both, and to provide the department reasonable access to ensure compliance. The bill would require the department to seek reimbursement from the airport for the reasonable costs associated with activities resulting from any violations of these provisions.
(1) Existing law authorizes a school district of choice, as defined, to give priority for attendance to children of military personnel, if the school district elected to accept transfer pupils by a resolution adopted by the governing board of the school district prior to April 1, 2005. This bill would ratify the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to, among other things, facilitate the enrollment, placement, advancement, and transfer of the academic records of the children of military families for the purpose of removing barriers to their educational success due to the frequent moves and deployment of their parents. The compact would establish the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to provide for dispute resolution among member states, promulgate rules, and take other actions necessary for the administration of the compact. The compact would only become effective upon ratification by a minimum of 10 states. The bill would authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction to accept nonstate funding, to be available upon appropriation, to offset the cost of the annual assessment required by the charter. The bill would require the Superintendent to reconvene a task force initially convened pursuant to a provision of existing law to review, and make recommendations regarding, the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. The bill would require this task force to be reconvened on or after July 1, 2012, and on or before September 1, 2012, and to issue a final report of findings and conclusions on prescribed topics to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of both houses of the Legislature no later than December 1, 2012. By requiring local educational agencies to perform additional duties regarding the children of military families, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Existing law, the Unclaimed Property Law, governs the disposition of unclaimed property, including the escheat of certain property to the state. Those provisions require a person holding funds or other property escheated to the state to report to the Controller certain information regarding the property and the owner. Existing law provides for the escheat to the state of (1) certain deposits or accounts made with a banking organization, together with other specified sums, (2) certain deposits, accounts, investment certificates, or other interests in or deposits made with a financial organization, together with other specified sums, and (3) certain funds held by a business association in specified retirement accounts or plans, when the owner, for more than 3 years, has not taken any of certain actions, except as specified. Existing law requires certain entities to make reasonable efforts to notify owners of certain property, by mail, that the property will escheat to the state under specified provisions of law. This bill would allow those entities to notify an owner described above electronically if the owner has consented to electronic notice. Existing law requires the holder of certain property, including certain property held by a banking or financial organization, certain sums held or owing by a business association to shareholders or other specified persons, and tangible property that is held in the ordinary course of the holder's business, to notify the owner, at prescribed times, of information regarding escheat and to include a form by which the owner may declare an intention to maintain the deposit, account, shares, or other interest. This bill would require that those notices contain certain information, and would allow the holder to provide a telephone number or other electronic means to enable the owner to contact the organization in lieu of returning the above-described form to declare the owner's intent. The bill would authorize the holder to give additional notices, as specified. The bill, commencing January 1, 2011, would require that, at the time a new account is opened with a banking or financial organization, the organization provide a written notice to the person opening the account regarding escheat. Existing law provides that the contents of any safe deposit box or any other safekeeping repository held in this state by a bank, financial organization, or business association escheat to the state if unclaimed by the owner for more than 3 years from the date on which the lease or rental period on the box or other repository expired, or from the date of termination of another specified agreement, whichever occurs last. This bill would require a bank, financial organization, or business association to notify the owner of the contents of a safe deposit box, at either of 2 specified times, regarding escheat, and would specify the contents of the notice. The bill would require that notice to include a form by which the customer may declare an intention to maintain the safe deposit box or other safekeeping repository, and would authorize the bank, financial organization, or business association to impose a service charge for the notice and form. The bill would provide that the contents of a safe deposit box shall not escheat to the state under certain circumstances. The bill would also require a bank, financial organization, or business association to provide a notice regarding escheat to a person opening a new account for a safe deposit box or other safekeeping repository. Existing law requires every person holding funds or other property escheated to the state to report to the Controller, as specified. Existing law requires every person filing such a report to pay or deliver to the Controller all escheated property specified in the report within a certain period. This bill would allow the Controller to postpone the date for payment or delivery of the property, and the date for any report required by the above provisions, upon his or her own motion or upon written request by any person required to pay or deliver the property or file a report. Existing law provides that a person who pays or delivers escheated property to the Controller under the above provisions is relieved of all liability to the extent of the value of the property paid or delivered for any claim that then exists or that thereafter may arise. This bill would provide, instead, that a person who pays or delivers escheated property to the Controller under the above provisions and who, prior to escheat, if the person's records contain an address for the apparent owner, which the holder's records do not disclose to be inaccurate, has made reasonable efforts to notify the owner by mail or electronically that the owner's property, deposit, account, shares, or other interest will escheat to the state, is relieved of all liability to the extent of the value of the property paid or delivered for any claim that then exists or that thereafter may arise. Existing law requires that any person who fails to report, pay, or deliver unclaimed property within the time prescribed by these provisions, unless that failure is due to reasonable cause, pay to the Controller interest at the rate of 12% per annum on that property or value thereof from the date the property should have been reported, paid, or delivered. This bill would require, in addition, that any person who fails to file a report substantially in the time and manner required by specified provisions of law, unless that failure is due to reasonable cause, pay to the Controller interest as described above. The bill would limit the interest payable to the Controller if a holder has failed to file a report in a required manner, but has timely paid or delivered the property to the Controller. This bill would make other related and conforming changes.
(1) The former Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989, which became inoperative on July 1, 2007, and was repealed on January 1, 2008, was administered by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education in the Department of Consumer Affairs. The former act generally effectuated legislative intent to ensure minimum standards of instructional quality and institutional stability in private postsecondary educational institutions and required the bureau, among other things, to review and investigate all institutions, programs, and courses of instruction approved under the act. The former act also established the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Administration Fund and the continuously appropriated Student Tuition Recovery Fund, both of which were repealed on July 1, 2008. The former act specified that certain violations of its provisions were subject to civil penalties and that certain willful violations of the act were punishable as crimes. This bill would recast and revise the former act as the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009. The bill would establish the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education in the Department of Consumer Affairs as a successor agency to the former bureau. The bill would appropriate the sum of $580,000 from the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Administration Fund to the bureau for the purpose of funding 5 education administration positions, and would continue that fund in existence and rename it as the Private Postsecondary Education Administration Fund. The bill also would continue the existence of the continuously appropriated Student Tuition Recovery Fund, would provide that certain violations of the new act are punishable as infractions, and would provide procedures for the resolution of student claims under the former act. The bill would impose reporting requirements on the bureau, the Bureau of State Audits, and the Legislative Analyst's Office regarding compliance with the act. The bill would appropriate $270,000 from the Private Postsecondary Education Administration Fund to the Bureau of State Audits to cover its costs of implementing the reporting requirements. The bill would impose various fees in connection with a private postsecondary institution's approval to operate under the act and would require those fees to be deposited in the Private Postsecondary Education Administration Fund, for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature, by the bureau for the purposes of the act. The bill would exempt various institutions from most of the provisions of the act, including an exemption for an institution that is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, or the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges and, until January 1, 2016, an institution that is accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education. The bill would repeal the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 on January 1, 2016. The bill would, upon the repeal of the act, continue the Student Tuition Recovery Fund in existence under the administration of the Department of Consumer Affairs and would continuously appropriate the moneys remaining in that fund to the Department of Consumer Affairs for specified purposes. Because this bill would establish new infractions, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 27 and 146 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 819, to be operative only if SB 819 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2010, and this bill is chaptered last. The bill also would incorporate additional changes in Sections 101 and 149 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 1535 and SB 819, to be operative only if this bill and one or both of the other bills are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2010, and this bill is chaptered last. (3) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards and bureaus within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires certain boards and bureaus to disclose on the Internet information on licensees. This bill would require the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to disclose on the Internet information on specified licensees. (2) Under existing law, if, upon investigation, any of a list of specified state regulatory agencies has probable cause to believe that a person is advertising in a telephone directory with respect to the offering or performance of services, without being properly licensed by or registered with that agency, the agency is authorized to issue a specified citation. This bill would add the Physical Therapy Board of California to those authorized agencies. Existing law requires specified healing arts boards to report to the State Department of Health Care Services the name and license number of a person whose license has been revoked, suspended, surrendered, made inactive, or otherwise restricted, and requires specified healing arts boards to create and maintain a central file of the names of all persons who hold a license from the board, and to prescribe and promulgate written complaint forms, as specified. This bill would also subject the California Board of Occupational Therapy to these requirements, and would subject the Acupuncture Board to the requirement to create and maintain a central file of the names of its licensees and to prescribe and promulgate written complaint forms, as specified. (3) Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of registered dental hygienists, registered dental hygienists in alternative practice, registered dental hygienists in extended functions, and registered dental assistants, among others. Existing law authorizes a person holding a license as a registered dental hygienist, registered dental hygienist in alternative practice, or registered dental hygienist in extended functions as of July 1, 2009, to perform the duties of a registered dental assistant, and requires persons issued one of those licenses on or after July 1, 2009, to also receive a registered dental assistant license before performing the duties of a registered dental assistant. This bill would instead authorize a person holding a license as a registered dental hygienist, registered dental hygienist in alternative practice, or registered dental hygienist in extended functions as of December 31, 2005, to perform the duties of a registered dental assistant, and would require persons issued one of those licenses on or after January 1, 2006, to also receive a registered dental assistant license before performing the duties of a registered dental assistant. (4) Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. The act requires each applicant for a physician and surgeon's license to meet specified training and examinations requirements, authorizes the appointment of examination commissioners, requires that examinations be conducted in English, except as specified, allows the examinations to be conducted in specified locations, requires notice of examinations to contain certain information, and requires examination records to be kept on file for a period of 2 years or more. The act authorizes a person whose certificate has been surrendered, revoked, suspended, or placed on probation, as specified, to petition for reinstatement of the certificate or modification of the penalty if specified requirements are met. Under existing law, any person who meets certain eligibility requirements, including, but not limited to, the requirement that the person is academically eminent, as defined, may apply for a special faculty permit that authorizes the holder to practice medicine, without a physician's and surgeon's certificate, within the medical school itself and certain affiliated institutions. This bill would revise the training requirements for a physician and surgeon's license, and would delete the requirement of passage of a clinical competency examination that is applicable to certain applicants. The bill would delete the provisions related to the appointment of examination commissioners, examinations being conducted in English and examination interpreters, the location of examinations, and examination notices. The bill would also delete the requirement that the board keep examination records on file for at least 2 years, and would instead require the board to keep state examination records on file until June 2070. The bill would revise the requirements for a petition for reinstatement or modification, as specified. The bill would require the holder of a special faculty permit to meet the same continuing medical education requirements as the holder of a physician's and surgeon's certificate and would also require a special faculty permitholder to show that he or she meets these requirements at the time of permit renewal. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of podiatrists by the Board of Podiatric Medicine in the Medical Board of California. Existing law authorizes the Board of Podiatric Medicine to issue an order of nonadoption of a proposed decision or interim order of the Medical Quality Hearing Panel within 90 calendar days. Existing law requires an applicant for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine to meet specified application procedures. This bill would instead authorize the Board of Podiatric Medicine to issue an order of nonadoption of a proposed decision or interim order of the Medical Quality Hearing Panel within 100 calendar days. The bill would revise the application procedures for a certificate to practice podiatric medicine, as specified. (5) Existing law, the Occupational Therapy Practice Act, provides for the licensure of occupational therapists and the certification of occupational therapy assistants by the California Board of Occupational Therapy. Existing law requires an occupational therapist to document his or her evaluation, goals, treatment plan, and summary of treatment in the patient record. Existing law authorizes a limited permit to practice occupational therapy to be granted if specified education and examination requirements are met, but provides that if the person fails to qualify for or pass the first announced licensure examination, all limited permit privileges automatically cease upon due notice. Existing law requires an applicant applying for a license or certification to file with the board a written application provided by and satisfactory to the board, showing that he or she meets certain requirements, including, but not limited to, successful completion of an educational program's academic requirements approved by the board and accredited by the American Occupational Therapy Association's Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) and successful completion of a period of supervised fieldwork experience. Existing law also specifies the curriculum requirements for an education program for occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants. This bill would require an occupational therapy assistant to document in the patient record the services provided to the patient, and would require an occupational therapist or assistant to document and sign the patient record legibly. The bill would revise the provisions related to limited permit privileges to instead provide that a person's failure to pass the licensure examination during the initial eligibility period would cause the privileges to automatically cease upon due notice. The bill would require that the applicant successfully complete the educational program's academic requirements approved by the board and accredited by ACOTE, or accredited or approved by the American Occupational Therapy Association's (AOTA) predecessor organization, or approved by AOTA's Career Mobility Program. The bill would also revise those curriculum requirements for an educational program. The bill would authorize an applicant who is a graduate of an educational program and is unable to provide evidence of having met the curriculum requirements to demonstrate passage of a specified examination as evidence of having successfully satisfied the curriculum requirements. The bill would require an applicant who completed AOTA's Career Mobility Program to demonstrate participation in the program and passage of a specified examination as evidence of having successfully satisfied the educational program and curriculum requirements. The bill would revise the supervised fieldwork experience requirement. The bill would require a licensee to report to the board violations of the Occupational Therapy Practice Act by licensees or applicants for licensure and to cooperate with the board, as specified. (6) Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of nurses by the Board of Registered Nursing. Existing law authorizes a registered nurse whose license is revoked or suspended, or who is placed on probation, to petition for reinstatement of his or her license or modification of the penalty after a specified time period. This bill would require a petition by a registered nurse whose initial license application is subject to a disciplinary decision to be filed after a specified time period from the date upon which his or her initial license was issued. Existing law provides for the certification and regulation of nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives by the Board of Registered Nursing and specifies requirements for qualification or certification as a nurse practitioner. Under the act, the practice of nursing is defined, in part, as providing direct and indirect patient care services, as specified, including the dispensing of drugs or devices under specified circumstances. The practice of nursing is also described as the implementation, based on observed abnormalities, of standardized procedures, defined as policies and protocols developed by specified facilities in collaboration with administrators and health professionals, including physicians and surgeons and nurses. This bill would authorize the implementation of standardized procedures that would expand the duties of a nurse practitioner in the scope of his or her practice, as enumerated. The bill would make specified findings and declarations in that regard. (7) Existing law, the Physician Assistant Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physician's assistants by the Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California. Existing law authorizes the committee to grant interim approval to an applicant for licensure as a physician assistant. This bill would delete that authority to grant interim approval and would make conforming changes. (8) Existing law, the Naturopathic Doctors Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of naturopathic doctors by the Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine. Existing law requires licensees to obtain continuing education through specified continuing education courses. Existing law requires a licensee on inactive status to meet certain requirements in order to restore his or her license to active status, including paying a reactivation fee. This bill would revise the standards for continuing education courses. The bill would delete the requirement that a licensee on inactive status pay a reactivation fee in order to restore his or her license to active status, and would instead require him or her to be current with all licensing fees. (9) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of respiratory care practitioners by the Respiratory Care Board of California. Existing law authorizes the board to direct a practitioner or applicant who is found to have violated the law to pay a sum not to exceed the costs of investigation and prosecution. This bill would also authorize the board to direct a practitioner or applicant who is found to have violated a term or condition of board probation to pay a sum not to exceed the costs for investigation and prosecution. Existing law exempts certain healing arts practitioners from liability for specified services rendered during a state of war, state of emergency, or local emergency. This bill would also exempt respiratory care practitioners from liability for the provision of specified services rendered during a state of war, state of emergency, or local emergency. (10) Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, the knowing violation of which is a crime, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists and pharmacies by the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing law authorizes a pharmacy to furnish dangerous drugs only to specified persons or entities, and subjects certain pharmacies and persons who violate the provision to specified fines. This bill would provide that any violation of this provision by any person or entity would subject the person to the fine. Existing law prohibits a person from acting as a wholesaler of any dangerous drug or device without a license from the board. Existing law requires a nonresident wholesaler, as defined, to be licensed prior to shipping, mailing, or delivering dangerous drugs or dangerous devices to a site located in this state. This bill would modify that definition and would also require a nonresident wholesaler to be licensed prior to selling, brokering, or distributing dangerous drugs or devices within this state. By subjecting these nonresident wholesalers to these licensure requirements which include, among other things, payment of specified fees, the bill would increase that part of the revenue in the Pharmacy Board Contingent Fund that is continuously appropriated and would thereby make an appropriation. Existing law requires a pharmacy or pharmacist who is in charge of or manages a pharmacy to notify the board within 30 days of termination of employment of the pharmacist-in-charge or acting as manager, and provides that a violation of this provision is grounds for disciplinary action. This bill would instead provide that failure by a pharmacist-in-charge or a pharmacy to notify the board in writing that the pharmacist-in-charge has ceased to act as pharmacist-in-charge within 30 days constitutes grounds for disciplinary action, and would also provide that the operation of the pharmacy for more than 30 days without supervision or management by a pharmacist-in-charge constitutes grounds for disciplinary action. The bill would revise the definition of a designated representative or designated representative-in-charge, and would define a pharmacist-in-charge. Existing law makes a nonpharmacist owner of a pharmacy who commits acts that would subvert or tend to subvert the efforts of a pharmacist-in-charge to comply with the Pharmacy Law guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would apply this provision to any pharmacy owner. The bill would require the board, during a declared federal, state, or local emergency, to allow for the employment of a mobile pharmacy in impacted areas under specified conditions, and would authorize the board to allow the temporary use of a mobile pharmacy when a pharmacy is destroyed or damaged under specified conditions. The bill would require the board, if a pharmacy fails to provide documentation substantiating continuing education requirements as part of a board investigation or audit, to cancel an active pharmacy license and issue an inactive pharmacy license, and would allow a pharmacy to reobtain an active pharmacy license if it meets specified requirements. Because this bill would impose new requirements and prohibitions under the Pharmacy Law, the knowing violation of which would be a crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires pharmacies to provide information regarding certain controlled substances prescriptions to the Department of Justice on a weekly basis. This bill would also require a clinic to provide this information to the Department of Justice on a weekly basis. (11) Existing law, the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of veterinarians by the Veterinary Medical Board. Existing law prohibits the disclosure of information about an animal receiving veterinary services, the client responsible for that animal, or the veterinary care provided to an animal, except under specified circumstances, including, but not limited to, as may be required to ensure compliance with any federal, state, county, or city law or regulation. This bill would specify that such disclosure is prohibited except as may be required to ensure compliance with the California Public Records Act. (12) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of educational psychologists, clinical social workers, and marriage and family therapists by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law generally provides for a system of citations and fines that are applicable to healing arts licensees. This bill would prohibit the board from publishing on the Internet final determinations of a citation and fine of $1,500 or less for more than 5 years from the date of issuance of the citation. (13) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of accountants by the California Board of Accountancy in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires an applicant for the certified public accountant license to comply with certain education, examination, and experience requirements under one of 2 provisions that set forth different standards, commonly referred to as the 2 "pathways." Existing law, under the first pathway, requires completion of a baccalaureate or higher degree conferred by a college or university with completion of at least 24 semester units in accounting and 24 semester units in business related subjects, board exam passage, and 2 years of qualifying experience. Existing law, under the 2nd pathway, imposes the same educational and examination requirements as the first pathway, but also requires proof of completion of at least 150 semester units, and instead accepts one year of qualifying experience. This bill would make the first pathway inoperative as of January 1, 2014, except in certain circumstances, and would, on and after that date, with respect to the second pathway, require the 150 units to include 10 units of ethics study, as defined, and 20 units of accounting study, as defined. The bill would create the Advisory Committee on Accounting Ethics Curriculum within the jurisdiction of the board to be composed of 11 members, as specified, and would require the committee to, on or before January 1, 2012, recommend guidelines for the ethics study requirement to the board. The bill would require the board to adopt those recommendations by January 31, 2013, and would also require the board to adopt guidelines for the accounting study requirement by January 1, 2012, as specified. The bill would also require the board to, by September 1, 2010, hold a hearing on a specified report by the California Research Bureau and to, at the hearing, make recommendations on ensuring the relevancy of accountancy education to the modern practice of accounting, as specified. The bill would enact other related provisions. Existing law allows an out-of-state accountant to engage in the practice of accountancy in this state without obtaining a certificate or license if the individual has practiced for at least 4 of the last 10 years, the individual is licensed in another state deemed substantially equivalent to this state under the 2nd pathway, or the individual's qualifications are determined to be substantially equivalent to this state's qualifications under the 2nd pathway. Existing law provides for the repeal of these provisions on January 1, 2011. This bill would delete the January 1, 2011, repeal date for those provisions, thereby making them operative indefinitely. (14) Existing law, the Professional Fiduciaries Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of professional fiduciaries by the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau until July 1, 2011. Existing law also requires applicants to provide certain boards and bureaus with a full set of fingerprints for the purpose of conducting criminal history record checks. Existing law requires licensees to file and the bureau to maintain certain information in each licensee's file, including whether the licensee has ever been removed as a fiduciary by a court for breach of trust committed intentionally, with gross negligence, in bad faith, or with reckless indifference, or demonstrated a pattern of negligent conduct, as specified. This bill would require the bureau to disclose on the Internet information on its licensees and would require applicants to the bureau to comply with that fingerprint requirement. The bill would require licensees to file and the bureau to maintain information regarding whether the licensee has ever been removed for cause or resigned as a conservator, guardian, trustee, or personal representative, as well as various other details relating to that removal or resignation. The bill would also make a conforming change. (15) Existing law provides a comprehensive scheme for the certification and regulation of interior designers. Under existing law, a stamp from an interior design organization certifies that an interior designer has passed a specified examination and that he or she has met certain other education or experience requirements, such as a combination of interior design education and diversified interior design experience that together total at least 8 years. This bill would revise that provision by specifying that an interior designer may meet these requirements by having at least 8 years of interior design education, or at least 8 years of diversified interior design experience, or a combination of interior design education and diversified interior design experience that together total at least 8 years. (16) Existing law provides for the registration of professional engineers and the licensure of land surveyors by the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Under existing law, in determining the qualifications of an applicant for registration or licensure, a majority vote of the board is required. This bill would delete that majority vote requirement. (17) Existing law, the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of funeral establishments and directors by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. Under existing law, every funeral establishment holding a funeral director's license on December 31, 1996, shall, upon application and payment of fees for renewal, be issued a funeral establishment license. This bill would delete that provision. (18) Existing law creates the Transcript Reimbursement Fund, with revenues in the fund to be available to provide shorthand reporting services to low-income litigants in civil cases. Existing law requires all unencumbered funds remaining in the Transcript Reimbursement Fund as of June 29, 2009, to be transferred to the Court Reporters' Fund, and repeals these provisions on January 1, 2011. This bill would instead provide for the transfer of those unencumbered funds on January 1, 2011. (19) Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, pursuant to which medical benefits are provided to public assistance recipients and certain other low-income persons. Existing law provides that federally qualified health center services and rural health clinic services, as defined, are covered benefits under the Medi-Cal program, to be reimbursed, to the extent that federal financial participation is obtained, to providers on a per-visit basis. For those purposes, a "visit" is defined as a face-to-face encounter between a patient of a federally qualified health center or a rural health clinic and a "physician," which is defined to include a medical doctor, osteopath, podiatrist, dentist, optometrist, and chiropractor. This bill would instead provide that the term "physician" includes a physician and surgeon, podiatrist, dentist, optometrist, and chiropractor. (20) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 27 and 146 of the Business and Professions Code, proposed by AB 48, to be operative only if AB 48 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2010, and this bill is chaptered last. The bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 101 and 149 of the Business and Professions Code, proposed by AB 20 of the 2009–10 Fourth Extraordinary Session, AB 48, and AB 1535, to be operative only if this bill and one, two, or all three other bills are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2010, and this bill is chaptered last. The bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 800 of the Business and Professions Code, proposed by SB 820, to be operative only if both bills are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2010, and this bill is chaptered last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 2570.5, 2570.6, 2570.7, and 7616 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by both this bill and SB 821, to be operative only if SB 821 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2010, and this bill is chaptered last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 3635 and 3636 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by both this bill and AB 20 of the 2009–10 Fourth Extraordinary Session, to be operative only if AB 20 of the 2009–10 Fourth Extraordinary Session and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2010, and this bill is chaptered last. The bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 4040 and 4076 of the Business and Professions Code, proposed by SB 470, to be operative only if SB 470 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2010, and this bill is chaptered last. The bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 4110 of the Business and Professions Code, proposed by AB 1071, to be operative only if AB 1071 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2010, and this bill is chaptered last. (21) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.