Bill Text: CA SB500 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Drug Medi-Cal.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-25 - Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Com. on HEALTH pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. Ordered to third reading. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. [SB500 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB500-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 500	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 29, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JANUARY 9, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JANUARY 6, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 2241.6 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to healing arts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 500, as amended, Lieu. Medical practice: pain management.
   Existing law establishes the Medical Board of California within
the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law, among other things,
required the board to develop standards before June 1, 2002, to
ensure the competent review in cases concerning the management,
including, but not limited to, the undertreatment, undermedication,
and overmedication of a patient's pain.
   This bill would require the board, on or before July 1, 2015, to
update those standards. The bill would require the board to convene a
task force to develop and recommend the updated standards to the
board. The bill would also require the board to update those
standards on or before July 1 each 5th year thereafter.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 2241.6 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   2241.6.  (a) (1) The board shall develop standards before June 1,
2002, to ensure the competent review in cases concerning the
management, including, but not limited to, the undertreatment,
undermedication, and overmedication of a patient's pain.
   (2) The board may consult with entities such as the American Pain
Society, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the California
Society of Anesthesiologists, the California Chapter of the American
College of Emergency Physicians,  the Osteopathic Medical Board
of California,  and any other medical entity specializing in
pain control therapies to develop the standards utilizing, to the
extent they are applicable, current authoritative clinical practice
guidelines.
   (b) The board shall update the standards adopted pursuant to
subdivision (a) on or before July 1, 2015, and on or before July 1
each fifth year thereafter.
   (c) The board shall convene a task force to develop and recommend
the updated standards to the board. The task force, in developing the
updated standards, may consult with the entities specified in
paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), the American Cancer Society, a
physician who treats or evaluates patients as part of the workers'
compensation system,  an osteopathic physician, a physician
assistant,  and specialists in pharmacology and addiction
medicine.