Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary educational institutions as the segments of postsecondary education in the state. This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to establish a program to provide tuition assistance to eligible individuals pursuing postgraduate degrees who have applied in a manner specified by the department, and who are currently employed by, or who commit to seeking employment in, a qualifying agency serving foster youth. The bill would define eligible individual, qualifying agency, and tuition assistance for its purposes. The bill would require the department, upon the appropriation by the Legislature of specified federal funds received by the state, to provide tuition assistance to eligible individuals while they attend in the state any graduate school at the University of California, the California State University, or an independent institution of higher education, as defined. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2023, to adopt regulations related to topics including, but not necessarily limited to, the application criteria, the application process, data collection, and accountability for program expenditures.
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Existing law establishes the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development for the purpose of advocating for the causes of small business and to provide small businesses with the information they need to survive in the marketplace. This bill, the Keep California Working Act, would establish the Keep California Working Grant Program. The act would require the Small Business Advocate to administer the program and award grants, as specified, to small businesses and nonprofit entities that meet specified criteria, including that the entity has experienced economic hardship resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The act would specify that grant money awarded pursuant to the program may be used only for specified purposes, including payroll costs, health care benefits, paid sick, medical, or family leave, and insurance premiums. The act would appropriate $2.6 billion dollars to the Office of Small Business Advocate for those purposes. The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, in conformity with federal income tax law, generally define "gross income" as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provide various exclusions from gross income. This bill would exclude from gross income, for state income tax purposes, the amount of a grant awarded pursuant to the Keep California Working Grant Program. Existing law requires a bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. The bill also would include additional information required for a bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law designates all parks, public campgrounds, monument sites, landmark sites, and sites of historical interest established or acquired by the state, or that are under its control, as the state park system, except as specified. Under existing law, the Department of Parks and Recreation controls the state park system, which is made up of units, one of which is the Chino Hills State Park. This bill would require the department to provide assistance acquiring and accepting land immediately adjacent to, and that expands, Chino Hills State Park, by transferring 3 specified properties into the state park system. The bill would require the department to manage the acquired properties and parcels with specified funds as part of the Chino Hills State Park, as provided.
Existing law requires a school district to provide a type 2 diabetes information sheet developed by the State Department of Education to the parent or guardian of an incoming pupil in grade 7, as specified. This bill would require the department to develop type 1 diabetes informational materials for the parents and guardians of pupils, as specified, and would require those informational materials to be made available to each school district, county office of education, and charter school through the department's internet website. The bill would require, on and after January 1, 2023, school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to make those materials available to the parent or guardian of a pupil when the pupil is first enrolled in elementary school, or as part of a certain notification. By imposing additional requirements on school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, the bill 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, 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 the statutory provisions noted above.
(1) Existing law, the Barbering and Cosmetology Act provides for the licensure and regulation of barbers and cosmetologists by the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology in the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law, until January 1, 2022, establishes the board and requires the board to be composed of 9 members composed of 5 public members and 4 professional members. Existing law also establishes a Health and Safety Advisory Committee to provide the board with advice and recommendations on health and safety issues, as described. This bill would increase the total number of members to 13, with 7 public members and 6 professional members, comprised as specified. The bill would provide a per diem to each board and committee member, as specified. The bill would extend the provisions relating to the establishment and composition of the board until January 1, 2027. (2) The act requires the board to conduct certain reviews and report its findings and recommendations as prescribed by November 1, 2018. The act provides that it confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery. This bill would delete that obsolete report requirement. The bill would prohibit the practice of medicine from being performed by, or offered by, a licensee under the act without being authorized and licensed to perform that act pursuant to a license obtained in accordance with some other provision of law. (3) The act requires the board to maintain a program of random and targeted inspections of establishments to ensure compliance with applicable laws relating to the public health and safety and the conduct and operation of establishments. The act prohibits the board from reducing the number of employees assigned to perform various inspections relating to field operations below the level funded by the annual Budget Act and as described and would prohibit the redirection of funds or personnel years allocated to those inspection and investigation purposes to other purposes. This bill would remove those prohibitions. Existing law also requires the board to inspect licensed establishments, as described. This bill would remove this requirement. (4) Existing law describes the practice of barbering, cosmetology, skin care and nail care specialties within cosmetology, and nail care. This bill would modify those descriptions and describe the practice of hairstyling. (5) Existing law requires the board to admit to examination for a license as a cosmetologist, barber, esthetician, manicurist, and electrologist to practice cosmetology, barbering, skin care, nail care, and electrolysis, respectively, any person who has made application to the board in proper form, paid the required fee, and meets specified qualifications. This bill would also require the board to admit to examination for a license as a hairstylist to practice hairstyling any person who has made application to the board in proper form, paid the required fee, and meets specified qualifications. The bill would establish a fee for a hairstylist application and examination. (6) Existing law requires the board to grant a license to practice to an applicant if the applicant submits a completed application form and all required fees and proof of a current license issued by another state. Existing law requires that license to have been active for 3 of the last 5 years, as described. This bill would remove that requirement for such an applicant to receive a license to practice from the board. (7) Existing law requires all persons making application as an apprentice in barbering to complete at least 39 hours of preapprentice training in a facility approved by the board prior to serving the general public. This bill would instead require those persons to complete training administered by the board. (8) Existing law requires the board to determine by regulation the required subjects of instruction to be completed in all approved courses provided by board-approved schools. Existing law also sets forth specific practical training and technical instruction hour requirements for barbering and cosmetology courses, among others. This bill would remove that requirement and instead set forth specific curriculum requirements for barbering, cosmetology, skin care, and nail care courses. The bill would also revise the number of practical and technical instruction hours required for these courses. The bill would also establish curriculum and hour requirements for a course in hairstyling established by a school. (9) Existing law requires the board to adopt regulations regarding the examination of students or apprentices, sets forth certain timelines for conducting the licensing examination, and describes preapplications for licensing examinations. Existing law also sets forth requirements for the examination. This bill would remove the above-described requirements on the board and timelines and preapplications for licensure. The bill would also recast the examination requirements to require a written examination that evaluates competency in protecting the health and safety of consumers of the services provided by licensees and written tests to determine the applicant's skill in, and knowledge of, the practice of the occupation for which a license is sought, as described. (10) Existing law provides that a course of training in barbering or cosmetology established by federal or state correctional institutions in California may qualify a person thereby trained to take a licensure examination as a barber or cosmetologist, if the course complies with the requirements of the act. The bill would expand this provision to hairstyling training courses established by federal or state correctional institutions in California. (11) Existing law regulates the operation of mobile units, which is defined as any self-contained, self-supporting, enclosed mobile unit that meets certain size requirements, that is licensed as an establishment for the practice of any occupation licensed by the board, and that meets other specified requirements. This bill would modify the definition of mobile unit to remove the size requirements and to instead require licensing as a mobile unit rather than as an establishment. The bill would modify requirements for submitting applications for a mobile unit and compliance with certain system requirements. (12) Existing law requires individual licensees to identify, at the time of license renewal, on the application as an employee, independent contractor or booth renter, or a salon owner. Existing law also requires establishment licensees to identify whether they have an independent contractor or booth renter operating in their establishment. This bill would remove references to booth renters in these provisions. (13) The act requires the board to establish by regulation a schedule of administrative fines for violations of the act. The act also makes it a misdemeanor for any person, firm, association, or corporation to violate any provision of the act that does not impose a specific penalty. This bill would require the administrative fines to be for violations of the act that directly impact consumer safety. The bill would also remove the imposition of a misdemeanor for violations of any provision of the act that does not impose a specific penalty. (14) Existing law authorizes a cosmetology student enrolled in an approved course, as provided, to work as an unpaid extern in an establishment participating in the educational program of the school upon completion of at least 60% of the clock hours required for graduation in the course. This bill would delete the requirement that the cosmetology externship be unpaid and would permit a student to work as an extern upon completion of at least 25% of the clock hours required for graduation in the course. Existing law requires an extern to receive clock hour credit toward graduation and prohibits that credit from exceeding 8 hours per week and 10% of the total clock hours required for completion of the course. This bill would instead prohibit the extern's clock hour credit for graduation from exceeding 25 hours per week and 25% of the total clock hours required for completion of the course. This bill would also make technical changes.
(1) Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Motor Vehicles to ensure that any eligible inmate released from state prison has a valid identification card. Existing law defines "eligible inmate," in part, as a person who has previously held a California driver's license or identification card, who has a usable photo on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles that is not more than 10 years old, who has no outstanding fees due for a prior identification card, and who meets certain requirements, including that they have provided, and the Department of Motor Vehicles has verified, specified information, such as the inmate's true full name. This bill would delete the requirements that the usable photo on file be no more than 10 years old and that the person have no outstanding fees due for a prior identification card, would require a new photo to be taken if the photo on file is deemed unusable, and would require the inmate to provide, and the Department of Motor Vehicles to verify, their California residency for purposes of obtaining an identification card. The bill would expand the definition of "eligible inmate" to include a person who has not previously held a California driver's license or identification card, and who meets specified requirements, including that they have signed and verified their application for an identification card. The bill would also authorize the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide a renewed driver's license in lieu of an identification card if the inmate meets specified criteria. The bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide an inmate with a photo prison identification card if a valid identification card is not obtained prior to release. The bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to the extent administratively feasible and within available resources, to facilitate the process between an eligible inmate and the agencies holding documentation required for the issuance of an identification card, as specified. (2) Existing law requires, upon an application for an identification card, a fee of $26 to be paid to the Department of Motor Vehicles, except as specified, including that a fee not be charged for an original or replacement identification card for certain individuals, such as senior citizens or a person who can verify their status as a homeless person or homeless child or youth. Existing law provides for a reduced fee of $8 for a replacement identification card issued to an eligible inmate, as defined, upon release from a state or federal correctional facility or a county jail facility. Existing law requires, as part of eligibility for the reduced fee, among other things, that the person previously held a California driver's license or identification card, and that the person has provided the Department of Motor Vehicles, upon application, a specified verification. In the case of an inmate, existing law requires that verification to be on state or federal correctional facility letterhead or county sheriff letterhead, and to contain the original signature of an official from those respective entities. Upon release from a state correctional facility, this bill would instead establish a fee of $8 for an original or replacement identification card issued to an eligible inmate, as defined, who meets certain requirements, including that the inmate has provided the department, upon application, a specified verification on state correctional facility letterhead that contains a signature of an official from the facility. This bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of medicine by the Medical Board of California and requires a health care provider initiating the use of telehealth to inform the patient, before the delivery of health care via telehealth, about the use of telehealth and obtain verbal or written consent from the patient for the use of telehealth as an acceptable mode of delivering health care services and public health. The act defines "health care provider" to include, among others, an associate marriage and family therapist or marriage and family therapist trainee, as specified. This bill would define health care provider to additionally include an associate clinical social worker and an associate professional clinical counselor, as specified. Existing law establishes the Board of Behavioral Sciences within the Department of Consumer Affairs, and requires the board to license and regulate various registrants and licensees under the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act (LMFTA) , the Educational Psychologist Practice Act (EPPA) , the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act (CSWPA) , and the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act (LPCCA) . Existing law requires the board to appoint an executive officer with certain duties and powers related to the administration and enforcement of those acts. Existing law repeals the provisions relating to the establishment of the board and the appointment, duties, and powers of the executive officer on January 1, 2022. This bill would extend those provisions until January 1, 2026. Existing law authorizes the board to deny, suspend, or revoke a license or registration for unprofessional conduct, which includes, among other things, a conviction of a crime substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of a licensee or registrant. Existing law authorizes the board to take that disciplinary action when the time for appeal has elapsed, or the judgment of conviction has been affirmed on appeal, or when an order granting probation is made suspending the imposition of sentence, irrespective of a subsequent order under a specified provision allowing the person to withdraw a plea of guilty and enter a plea of not guilty or setting aside the verdict of guilty or dismissing the accusation, information, or indictment. This bill, instead, would remove the specification that the board's authority to take that disciplinary action at those times is irrespective of such an order, and would require the board to take the action pursuant to the provisions governing the denial, suspension, and revocation of licenses of boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. The LMFTA and LPCCA require applicants for licensure or registration to meet certain educational requirements, including, among others, training in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning. This bill would include in those educational requirements training in prognosis, as specified. The LPCCA authorizes a licensee to renew an expired license within 3 years of expiration if the licensee, among other requirements, pays all fees that would have been paid if the license had not become delinquent and all delinquency fees. This bill would require that licensee to instead pay a two-year renewal fee prescribed by the board and a delinquency fee. A violation of the LMFTA, EPPA, CSWPA, or LPCCA is a crime. The LMFTA, EPPA, CSWPA, and LPCCA all require a licensee or registrant, as provided, to provide a client with a certain notice written in at least 12-point type relating to a method for contacting the board regarding complaints about services provided by the applicable licensee prior to initiating services. This bill, among other things, would revise that notice requirement to require the notice be delivered prior to initiating services, or as soon as practicably possible thereafter, and would require the delivery of the notice to be documented. The bill would also require an applicant, registrant, or licensee who has an electronic mail address to provide the board with that electronic mail address no later than July 1, 2022, and would require the electronic mail address to be considered confidential and not subject to public disclosure. Because the bill would expand the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law defines the practice of marriage and family therapy as that service performed with individuals, couples, or groups wherein interpersonal relationships are examined for the purpose of achieving more adequate, satisfying, and productive marriage and family adjustments, including relationship and premarriage counseling. Existing law also specifies how marriage and family therapy principles may be applied, including, among others, psychotherapeutic techniques and the use, application, and integration of coursework and training required for licensed marriage and family therapists. This bill would recast those provisions to include within this scope of practice the application of psychotherapeutic and family systems theories, principles, and methods in the delivery of services to individuals, couples, or groups in order to assess, evaluate, and treat relational issues, emotional disorders, behavioral problems, mental illness, alcohol and substance use, and to modify intrapersonal and interpersonal behaviors. The bill would make conforming changes relating to the various ways in which marriage and family therapy principles may be applied. By expanding the scope of practice for marriage and family therapists and thus expanding the application and breadth of the related crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would declare that these provisions are declaratory of existing law and would also declare the intent of the Legislature that this bill not be construed to expand or constrict the scope of practice of a licensed marriage and family therapist. The Psychology Licensing Law establishes the Board of Psychology to license and regulate the practice of psychology, and authorizes the board to employ all personnel necessary to carry out that law and to employ an executive officer, as specified. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2022. This bill would extend the provisions establishing the board and authorizing the board to employ necessary personnel and an executive officer until January 1, 2026. The Psychology Licensing Law, with certain exceptions, prohibits a person from engaging in the practice of psychology, or representing themselves to be a psychologist, without a license issued by the board. The Psychology Licensing Law requires an applicant for licensure to meet certain educational requirements, including, among others, possessing an earned doctoral degree in psychology, educational psychology, or education with the field of specialization in counseling psychology or educational psychology. The Psychology Licensing Law authorizes a person other than a licensed psychologist to perform psychological functions in preparation for licensure as a psychologist if certain requirements are met, including, among others, registering with the board as a "psychological assistant" and having completed a master's or doctoral degree, or having been admitted to candidacy for a doctoral degree, in similar subjects required for licensure. The Psychology Licensing Law requires the psychological assistant to be at all times under the immediate supervision of a licensed psychologist, or a board certified psychiatrist, as specified. This bill would rename the position of psychological assistant as registered psychological associate. The bill, among other things, would revise the qualifying subjects of the doctoral degree an applicant for licensure is required to have to include psychology with the field specialization in clinical, counseling, school, consulting, forensic, industrial, or organizational psychology, or education with the field specialization in counseling psychology, educational psychology, or school psychology. The bill would make similar revisions to the qualifying educational requirements for a registered psychological associate. The bill would revise the supervision requirements by, among other things, requiring a licensed psychologist to be the primary supervisor of the registered psychological associate and authorizing the primary supervisor to delegate supervision as prescribed by the board's regulations. The Psychology Licensing Law requires an applicant for licensure trained in an educational institution outside the United States or Canada to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the board they possess a doctorate degree in psychology that is equivalent to a degree earned from a regionally accredited university in the United States or Canada by providing the board with a comprehensive evaluation of the degree performed by a foreign credential evaluation service that is a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) . This bill would additionally allow an applicant to demonstrate their degree is equivalent by having the National Register of Health Services Psychologists (NRHSP) evaluate the degree. The bill would require the evaluation to, among other things, include a transcript in English, or translated into English by the credential evaluation service, of the degree. The bill would require the evaluation to be submitted directly to the board by a member of the NACES or NRHSP. The Psychology Licensing Law provides that a person with specified education and training employed by a specified nonprofit community agency is not restricted or prevented from conducting activities of a psychological nature or the use of the official title of their position, provided that person is performing those activities as part of the duties for which they were employed, is performing those activities solely within the confines of or under the jurisdiction of the organization in which they are employed, and does not offer to render or render psychological services, as specified. The Psychology Licensing Law requires those persons to be registered by the agency with the board at the time of employment and to be identified in the setting as a "registered psychologist." Existing law makes those persons exempt from the Psychology Licensing Law for a maximum period of 30 months from the date of registration. This bill would repeal these provision. The Psychology Law requires an applicant for licensure to complete training in the detection and treatment of alcohol and other chemical substance dependency and to complete coursework in spousal or partner abuse assessment, detection, and intervention. This bill would authorize an applicant to fulfill the above-described requirements by completing coursework or training in those subjects. The Psychology Licensing Law requires an applicant for licensure who began graduate study on or after January 1, 2004, to complete a minimum of 10 contact hours of coursework in aging and long-term care, as specified. The Psychology Licensing Law requires the applicant to submit to the board a certification from the chief academic officer of the educational institution from which the applicant graduated stating that this required coursework is included within the institution's required curriculum for graduation, or within the coursework that was completed by the applicant. This bill, instead, would require an applicant for licensure to complete a minimum of 6 hours of coursework or applied experience in aging and long-term care, as specified. The bill would authorize this requirement to be satisfied by taking a continuing education course, as specified. The bill would revise the requirement that the applicant submit a certification to, among other things, require it to be made and submitted under penalty of perjury. By expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The Psychology Licensing Law requires the board to grant a license to a person who passes the board's supplemental licensing examination and, at the time of application, has been licensed for at least 5 years by a licensing authority in another state or Canadian province if the requirements for obtaining a certificate or license in that state or province were substantially equivalent to the requirements of the Psychology Licensing Law. The Psychology Licensing Law authorizes such an applicant to perform activities and services of a psychological nature without a valid license for a period not to exceed 180 calendar days from the time of submitting their application or from the commencement of residency in this state, whichever comes first. This bill would decrease the number of years the applicant is required to have been licensed to 2 years and would extend these provisions to a person who has been licensed by a psychology licensing authority in a territory of the United States. The Psychology Licensing Law imposes various fees on applicants for licensure and on licensees. This bill, additionally, would impose a file transfer fee of $10. Existing law requires various boards in the Department of Consumer Affairs to provide information concerning the status of licensees on the internet, including information on suspensions and revocations of licenses issued by the entity and other related enforcement actions, and a licensee's address of record. Existing law requires the Board of Psychology to comply with those provisions and disclose information on its licensees, including psychologists, psychological assistants, and registered psychologists. This bill would instead specify that the licensees for which the Board of Psychology is required to disclose this information include psychologists and registered psychological associates. This bill would make conforming and other nonsubstantive changes. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 27 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 1534 and SB 826 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1534, SB 826, or both are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 2946 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 107 to be operative only if this bill and AB 107 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 4980.01, 4980.43.3, 4996.14, and 4999.22 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 690 to be operative only if this bill and AB 690 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. 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 within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes an administrative law judge, in an order issued in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before a board within the Department of Consumer Affairs or before the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, upon request of the entity bringing the proceeding, to direct a licensee found to have committed a violation of the licensing act to pay a sum that does not exceed the reasonable costs of the investigation and enforcement of the case. Under existing law, the Medical Board of California is prohibited from requesting or obtaining from a physician and surgeon investigation and prosecution costs for a disciplinary proceeding against the licensee. This bill would repeal the above-described provision that prohibits the board from requesting or obtaining investigation and prosecution costs for a disciplinary proceeding against a licensee. (2) Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of the practice of medicine by physicians and surgeons. Under existing law, the board consists of 15 members, 7 of whom are public members. Existing law requires the Senate Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly to each appoint one public member. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2022. The bill would instead repeal these provisions on January 1, 2024. The bill would also require the Director of Consumer Affairs to appoint an independent enforcement monitor that meets specified requirements no later than March 1, 2022. The bill would, among other things, require the independent enforcement monitor to monitor and evaluate the board's enforcement efforts with specific concentration on the handling and processing of complaints and timely application of sanctions or discipline imposed on licensees and persons in order to protect the public and would require the enforcement monitor to report findings and conclusions to the Legislature, as prescribed. Existing law authorizes the board to employ and fix the compensation of an executive director, and other specified staff, as provided. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to act as legal counsel for the board for any judicial and administrative proceedings. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2022. This bill would extend that date to January 1, 2024. Existing law authorizes the board to take action against licensees who violate specified provisions, except as provided. Existing law subjects licensees to disciplinary action, as provided. This bill would authorize the board to delegate to its executive director the authority to issue an administrative confidential letter of advice to a licensee to resolve a complaint for an alleged minor violation that is not related to patient care, as provided. Existing law requires a graduate of an approved medical school who is enrolled in a postgraduate training program to obtain a postgraduate training license by submitting an application to the board on a form provided by the board, as provided. Existing law permits a physician and surgeon postgraduate training licensee to engage in the practice of medicine only in connection with their duties as an intern or resident physician in a board-approved program, as specified, including diagnosing and treating patients, prescribing medications, and signing birth and death certificates. Existing law requires an applicant for a physician's and surgeon's license to successfully complete 36 months of board-approved postgraduate training in order to be issued a physician's and surgeon's license. Existing law authorizes a physician's and surgeon's license to be valid for 90 days after the holder has successfully completed 36 months of board-approved postgraduate training. Existing law authorizes the board to grant an extension beyond 39 months to a postgraduate training licensee in order to successfully complete the 36 months of required approved postgraduate training. This bill would require each application for a postgraduate training license to be made upon an online electronic form, or on another form provided by the board. The bill would additionally authorize a postgraduate licensee to engage in the practice of medicine by signing forms a physician and surgeon is authorized to sign. The bill would require a postgraduate licensee to have received 12 months of board-approved postgraduate training for graduates of medical schools in the United States and Canada, or 24 months of board-approved postgraduate training for graduates of foreign medical schools, as provided, before being issued a physician's and surgeon's license pursuant to the attestation of the program director, or other specified individual. By requiring an attestation by the program director, or other specified individual, the bill would expand the scope of the crime of perjury, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize the board to grant an extension beyond 15 months to a postgraduate licensee who graduated from a medical school in the United States or Canada, or beyond 27 months to a postgraduate training licensee who graduated from a foreign medical school, as provided, to receive credit for the required training. For individuals issued a physician's and surgeon's license by the board on or after January 1, 2022, the bill would require, at the time of initial renewal, a physician and surgeon to show evidence satisfactory to the board that the applicant has received credit for at least 36 months of board-approved postgraduate training, as specified. The bill would require that the physician's and surgeon's certificate be automatically placed in delinquent status by the board if the holder does not show satisfactory evidence of credit. The bill would authorize the board to renew a physician's and surgeon's license if the applicant has demonstrated substantial compliance, as provided. The bill would require those postgraduate trainees with a physician's and surgeon's license to provide documentation to the board that they have received credit for the postgraduate training, pursuant to attestation by their program director, or other specified individual. By requiring an attestation by the program director, or other specified individual, the bill would expand the scope of the crime of perjury, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. Existing law authorizes physicians who are not citizens but who meet certain requirements and who seek postgraduate study in an approved medical school or academic medical center to be permitted to participate in the professional activities of the department or division in the medical school or academic medical center to which they are appointed, as provided. Existing law authorizes physicians who are not citizens and who seek postgraduate study to participate in a fellowship program in a specialty or subspecialty field, as provided. Existing law authorizes any person who does not immediately qualify for a physician's and surgeon's certificate and who is offered a full-time faculty position by an approved medical school, to be granted a certificate of registration to engage in the practice of medicine, as provided. This bill would allow for cancellation of these permits or certificates under certain conditions. Existing law requires an applicant for a special faculty permit to practice medicine in the medical school, any affiliated institution of the medical school, or an academic medical center, as defined. Existing law requires an academic medical center to meet certain criteria, including the facility has an intern and resident-to-bed ratio meeting the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services definition as a major teaching hospital and conducts research in an amount of $100,000,000 or more annually. This bill would remove that requirement. The bill would additionally require a facility to be accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to be an academic medical center. Under existing law, all moneys paid to and received by the board are required to be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California. Under existing law, moneys in the contingent fund shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, as provided. Existing law, applicable to the licensure of physicians and surgeons, requires an applicant for a certificate based upon a national board diplomate certificate, an applicant for a certificate based on reciprocity, and an applicant for a certificate based upon written examination to pay a nonrefundable application and processing fee at the time the application is filed. Existing law requires the board to fix the application and processing fee, as specified, at an amount necessary to recover the actual costs of the licensing program as projected for the fiscal year commencing on the date the fees become effective. Existing law requires an applicant who qualifies for a certificate, as a condition precedent to its issuance, in addition to other required fees, to pay an initial license fee in an amount not to exceed $790. Existing law requires the board to fix the biennial renewal fee not to exceed $790. This bill would instead require the application and processing fee to be $625, the initial license fee to be $863, and for licenses that expire on or after January 1, 2022, the biennial renewal fee to be $863. The bill would require the Legislature to review the amount of fees in 2022 to determine the necessity of increasing fees, as provided. Under existing law, the use of any fictitious, false, or assumed name, or any name other than their own by a physician and surgeon or any doctor of podiatric medicine, as specified, in any public communication, advertisement, sign, or announcement of their practice constitutes unprofessional conduct unless the proprietor, partnership, group, or professional corporation obtains and maintains in current status a fictitious name permit, as specified. Existing law requires the initial permit fee to be $50 and the biennial renewal fee to be $40, and requires the duplicate permit fee to not exceed the cost of processing up to a maximum of $50. This bill would require the initial permit fee to be $70, for permits that expire on or after January 1, 2022, the biennial renewal fee to be $50, and the duplicate permit fee to be $40. Existing law creates, until January 1, 2022, the Podiatric Medical Board of California. Existing law also creates the Osteopathic Medical Board of California and requires it to require each licensed osteopathic physician and surgeon to complete a minimum of 100 hours of American Osteopathic Association continuing education hours during each 2-year cycle, of which 40 hours shall be completed in American Osteopathic Association Category 1 continuing education hours and the remaining 60 hours shall be either American Osteopathic Association or American Medical Association accredited as a condition for renewal of an active license. This bill would extend the provisions establishing the Podiatric Medical Board of California until January 1, 2026. The bill would also reduce by 12 each of the education hours requirements described above. (3) Existing law, the Licensed Midwifery Practice Act of 1993, provides for the licensure and regulation of midwives by the Medical Board of California and prescribes various fees relating to, among others, an application, licensure, and renewal. Existing law establishes the Licensed Midwifery Fund and requires the fees prescribed by the act to be deposited in the fund and to be available, upon appropriation, to the board for the purposes of the act. Existing law requires the board to fix the fee to be paid upon the filing of a license application at not less than $75 nor more than $300. Existing law requires the board to fix the fee for renewal of the midwife license at not less than $50 nor more than $200. This bill would require the fee to be paid upon the filing of a license application to be $450 and would require the fee for renewal for licenses that expire on or after January 1, 2022, to be $300. The bill would require each application for licensure as a licensed midwife to be made upon a specified online electronic form and would require the applicant to certify under penalty of perjury that the information provided by the applicant is true and correct. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) Existing law authorizes graduates of specified institutes who have completed clinical training in psychoanalysis to engage in psychoanalysis as an adjunct to teaching, training, or research and hold themselves out to the public as psychoanalysts, and authorizes students in those institutes to engage in psychoanalysis under supervision, if the students and graduates do not hold themselves out to the public by any title or description of services incorporating specified words or that they do not state or imply that they are licensed to practice psychology. Existing law requires those students and graduates seeking to engage in psychoanalysis to register with the Medical Board of California, presenting evidence of their student or graduate status. Existing law requires each person to whom registration is granted under those provisions to pay into the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California a fee to be fixed by the Medical Board of California at a sum not in excess of $100. Existing law authorizes the registration to be renewed biennially at a fee to be fixed by the board at a sum not in excess of $50. This bill would instead require the Medical Board of California to fix the registration fee at a sum of $150 and, for registrations that expire on or after January 1, 2022, the renewal fee shall be $75. The bill would require each application for registration as a research psychoanalyst or student research psychoanalyst to be made upon a specified online electronic form and would require the applicant to certify under penalty of perjury that the information provided by the applicant is true and correct. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (5) Existing law prohibits a person from using the title "certified polysomnographic technologist" or engaging in the practice of polysomnography unless they are registered as a certified polysomnographic technologist, is supervised and directed by a licensed physician and surgeon, and meets certain other requirements. Existing law requires polysomnographic technologists to apply to and register with the Medical Board of California and to pay specified fees to be fixed by the board at no more than $100 each, and to renew their registration biennially for a fee of no more than $150. Existing law requires the deposit of those fees in the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California. This bill would instead require the board to fix the application and registration fees at $120 each and, for registrations that expire on or after January 1, 2022, the renewal fee shall be $220. The bill would require each application for registration as a polysomnographic technologist, technician, or trainee to be made upon a specified online electronic form and would require the applicant to certify under penalty of perjury that the information provided by the applicant is true and correct. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (6) Existing law, the Physician Assistant Practice Act, creates, until January 2, 2022, the Physician Assistant Board and provides for the licensure and regulation of physician assistants by the Physician Assistant Board, which is within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California. Existing law, until January 1, 2022, also requires the board to employ an executive officer. The act provides that the board shall require physician assistants to take and pass a written examination for licensure. The act provides that the board may make arrangements for the examination to be administered under a uniform examination system. The act, however, requires the board to establish a passing score and time and place for each examination. This bill would, among other things, remove the requirement that the board establish a passing score and time and place for each examination and the provision that the Physician Assistant Board is within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California. The bill would also extend the provisions establishing the Physician Assistant Board and requiring the board to employ an executive officer until January 1, 2026. (7) 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.
Under existing law, the information obtained in the administration of the Unemployment Insurance Code is for the exclusive use and information of the Director of Employment Development in the discharge of the director's duties and is not open to the public. Existing law makes it a crime for any person to knowingly access, use, or disclose this confidential information without authorization. Existing law requires the Director of Employment Development to permit the use of information in the director's possession for, among other purposes, to enable specified state agencies to access relevant quarterly wage data for the evaluation and reporting of their respective program performance outcomes as required and permitted by various local, state, and federal laws pertaining to performance measurement and program evaluation. This bill would also require the director, in the above-described circumstances, to permit the use of this data to evaluate and report program performance outcomes pertaining to specified Unemployment Insurance Code and Streets and Highways Code provisions concerning workforce training and investment. By allowing for additional distribution of this information, and thereby expanding the number of persons subject to the access, use, and confidentiality restrictions, this bill would expand the scope of a crime, thus imposing a state-mandated local program. Existing law establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. Existing law requires the board to assist the Governor with specified tasks, including developing and continuously improving the statewide workforce investment system. This bill would require the board to evaluate program outcomes, including program participant outcomes for all grant programs administered by the board, regardless of funding source. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1095 of the Unemployment Insurance Code proposed by AB 794 to be operative only if this bill and AB 794 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. 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.
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. The act applies to private entities with a physical presence in the state that offer postsecondary education, as defined in the act, to the public for an institutional charge, but exempts certain institutions from its application, including certain institutions that offer continuing education, which is also defined in the act, and other institutions that offer educational programs to members of a trade or fraternal organization that sponsor the educational programs. The act requires the bureau to adopt by regulation minimum operating standards for institutions that are subject to the act's provisions, including a standard that requires accreditation for degree-granting institutions. The act requires an institution to obtain bureau approval before making certain substantive changes to its operations. The act authorizes the bureau to suspend, revoke, or place on probation an institution's approval to operate for violations of the act that result in actual student harm. The act is repealed by its own provisions on January 1, 2022. This bill would revise and recast provisions of the act. The bill would revise the definition of "continuing education" to expressly exclude instruction that leads to a degree and would revise the definition of "educational program" to exclude a course of 32 hours of instruction or less that is not designed to lead to employment. The bill would change the definition of "postsecondary education" from a formal institutional educational program whose "curriculum" is designed primarily for specified students, to a formal institutional educational program whose "instruction" is designed primarily for those students. The bill would clarify that institutions cannot qualify for the trade or fraternal organization exemption by sponsoring their own educational programs. The bill would require the bureau's advisory committee to elect a chair and vice chair and adopt rules for its affairs. The bill would allow the bureau to extend the accreditation deadlines under certain conditions and would clarify the bureau's authority to suspend an institution's educational programs and to suspend, revoke, or place on probation an institution's approval to operate. The bill would expand the types of substantive changes requiring prior bureau approval to include changes to an institution's educational programs related to clock and credit hours or distance learning, and those relating to an institution's participation in certain federal student aid programs. The bill would make other conforming, technical, and nonsubstantive changes and would extend the operation of the act by one year to January 1, 2023. The act establishes the Student Tuition Recovery Fund and requires the bureau to adopt regulations governing the administration and maintenance of the fund, including requirements relating to assessments on students and student claims against the fund, and establishes that the moneys in this fund are continuously appropriated to the bureau for specified purposes. By extending operation of the Student Tuition Recovery Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. Under existing law, the act specifies conduct by regulated institutions that, if undertaken, is a crime. Because this bill would extend the application of those criminal provisions, 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.