Bill Text: CA SB70 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Real estate: Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 928, Statutes of 2018. [SB70 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB70-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Real estate: Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 928, Statutes of 2018. [SB70 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB70-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Senate Bill | No. 70 |
| Introduced by Senator Bates |
January 09, 2017 |
An act to amend Section 921 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 70, as introduced, Bates.
Health care professionals.
Existing law, the Health Care Professional Disaster Response Act, states findings of the Legislature regarding the shortage of qualified health care practitioners during times of national or state disasters, and authorizes a physician and surgeon, whose license has been expired for less than 5 years and who meets specified criteria, to obtain a license without paying fees.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those findings.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 921 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:921.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:(1) In times of national or state disasters, a shortage of qualified health care practitioners may exist in areas throughout the state where they are desperately required to respond to public health emergencies.
(2) Health care practitioners with lapsed or inactive licenses could potentially serve in those areas where a shortage of qualified health care practitioners exists, if licensing requirements were streamlined and fees curtailed.
(b) It is, therefore, Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature to address these matters through the provisions of the Health Care Professional Disaster Response Act.
