NEW
The second legislative
CALIFORNIA
LAWS OF INTEREST TO PHYSICIANS FOR 2022
session during the COVID-19 pandemic continued to focus on pandemic-related policy issues. While the number of new laws overall is significantly reduced as compared to past years, many new and significant laws were enacted. Below is a list of new laws of interest to physicians. For information about these laws, go to www.cmadocs.org.
ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
AB 1533 (Committee on Business and Professions) –
AB 356 (Chen) – Fluoroscopy: temporary permit
AB 407 (Salas) – Optometry: assistants and
AB 1534 (Committee on Business and Professions) –
scope of practice
California State Board of
AB 435 (Mullin) – Hearing aids: locked programming software: notice AB 462 (Carrillo) – Licensed Professional Clinical
Optometry AB 1536 (Committee on Business and Professions) – Board of Vocational Nursing
Counselor Act
and Psychiatric Technicians
AB 691 (Chau) – Optometry: COVID-19
of the State of California:
vaccinations and clinical
vocational nursing and
laboratory tests or examinations AB 815 (Luz) – School nurses: credentialing
psychiatric technicians SB 409 (Caballero) – Pharmacy practice: testing SB 509 (Wilk) – Optometry: COVID-19
AB 1015 (Rubio) – Board of Registered Nursing: workforce planning: nursing
Pharmacy
pandemic: temporary licenses SB 534 (Jones) – Dental hygienists
programs: clinical placements AB 1064 (Fong) – Pharmacy practice: vaccines: independent initiation and administration AB 1407 (Burke) – Nurses: implicit bias courses AB 1532 (Committee on Business and Professions) –
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BROADBAND ACCESS AB 41 (Wood) – Broadband infrastructure deployment SB 4 (Gonzalez) – Communications: California Advanced Services Fund
Nursing
SAN JOAQUIN PHYSICIAN
SPRING 2022
