In its concern with the growing shortage and geographic maldistribution of health care services in California, the Legislature intends to establish in this chapter a framework for development of...
This chapter shall be known and cited as the Physician Assistant Practice Act....
As used in this chapter: (a) Board means the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California. (b) Approved program means a program for the education of physician...
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant may perform those medical services as set forth by the regulations of the board when the services are rendered...
(2) The prescribing or directing the use of, or using, any optical device in connection with ocular exercises, visual training, or orthoptics. (3) The prescribing of contact lenses for, or...
(a) In addition to the services authorized in the regulations adopted by the board, and except as prohibited by Section 3502, while under the supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon...
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant may perform those medical services permitted pursuant to Section 3502 during any state of war emergency, state of emergency, or...
No person other than one who has been licensed to practice as a physician assistant or authorized to practice on interim approval under Section 3517 shall practice as a physician assistant or...
(a) A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency that occurs outside both the place and course of that person's employment...
There is established a Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California. The committee consists of nine members....
Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Physician Assistant Committee of the Medical Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and...
The members of the committee shall include one member of the Medical Board of California, a physician representative of a California medical school, an educator participating in...
Each member of the committee shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103....
The appointing power has power to remove from office any member of the committee, as provided in Section 106....
(a) The committee may convene from time to time as deemed necessary by the committee. (b) Notice of each meeting of the committee shall be given at least two weeks in advance to those...
It shall be the duty of the committee to: (a) Establish standards and issue licenses of approval for programs for the education and training of physician assistants. (b) Make...
The committee shall elect annually a chairperson and a vice chairperson from among its members....
The committee may adopt, amend, and repeal regulations as may be necessary to enable it to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter; provided, however, that the board shall...
Five members shall constitute a quorum for transacting any business. The affirmative vote of a majority of those present at a meeting of the committee shall be required to carry any motion....
Except as provided in Sections 159.5 and 2020, the committee shall employ within the limits of the Physician Assistant Fund all personnel necessary to carry out the provisions of...
The committee shall recognize the approval of training programs for physician assistants approved by a national accrediting organization. Physician assistant training programs accredited...
(a) The committee shall formulate by regulation guidelines for the consideration of applications for licensure as a physician's assistant. (b) The committee shall formulate by...
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any physician assistant licensed by the committee shall be eligible for employment or supervision by any physician approved by the board...
(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician who provides services in a medically underserved area may supervise not more than four physician assistants at any one time. ...
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and in accordance with regulations established by the board, the director of emergency care services in a hospital with an approved program...
The committee shall require a written examination of physician assistants in the manner and under the rules and regulations as it shall prescribe, but the examination shall be conducted in...
The committee shall keep current, two separate registers, one for approved supervising physicians and one for licensed physician's assistants, by specialty if applicable. These registers...
The committee shall issue under the name of the Medical Board of California a license to all physician assistant applicants who meet all of the following requirements: (a) Provide evidence...
(a) The committee may issue under the name of the board a probationary license to an applicant subject to terms and conditions, including, but not limited to, any of the following...
Within 10 days after the beginning of each calendar month the board shall report to the Controller the amount and source of all collections made under this chapter and at the same time...
The fees to be paid for approval to supervise physician assistants are to be set by the committee as follows: (a) An application fee not to exceed fifty dollars ($50) shall be charged to...
The fees to be paid by physician assistants are to be set by the committee as follows: (a) An application fee not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25) shall be charged to each...
The fees to be paid by physician assistant training programs are to be set by the committee as follows: (a) An application fee not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) shall be charged to...
The committee shall report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of each house of the Legislature whenever the board approves a fee increase pursuant to Sections 3521 and 3521.1....
An approval to supervise physician assistants shall expire at 12 midnight on the last day of the birth month of the physician and surgeon during the second year of a two-year term if not...
All physician assistant licenses shall expire at 12 midnight of the last day of the birth month of the licensee during the second year of a two-year term if not renewed. The committee...
A license or approval that has expired may be renewed at any time within five years after its expiration by filing an application for renewal on a form prescribed by the committee or board,...
A suspended license is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this chapter. However, such renewal does not entitle such holder, to practice or otherwise violate the...
A person who fails to renew his or her license or approval within five years after its expiration may not renew it, and it may not be reissued, reinstated, or restored thereafter, but...
(a) The committee may order the denial of an application for, or the issuance subject to terms and conditions of, or the suspension or revocation of, or the imposition of...
Any proceedings involving the denial, suspension, or revocation of the application for licensure or the license of a physician assistant, the application for approval or the approval...
The committee may hear any matters filed pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 3527, or may assign any such matter to a hearing officer. The board may hear any matters filed pursuant...
One year from the date of a revocation of a license or approval under this chapter, application may be made to the committee or the board in the case of approval of an application...
A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge of a felony or of any offense which is substantially related to the qualifications,...
Any person who violates Section 3502, 3503, 3515, or 3516 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not...
Whenever any person has engaged in any act or practice which constitutes an offense against this chapter, the superior court of any county, on application of the board, may issue an...
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the examining committee shall seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate physician assistants whose competency is impaired due to...
The examining committee shall establish and administer a diversion program for the rehabilitation of physician assistants whose competency is impaired due to the abuse of drugs or...
(a) Any committee established by the examining committee shall have at least three members. In making appointments to a committee the examining committee shall consider the appointments...
Each committee has the following duties and responsibilities: (a) The evaluation of physician assistants who request participation in the program and to consider any...
Each committee has the following duties and responsibilities: (a) The evaluation of physician assistants who request participation in the program and to consider any...
(f) To set forth in writing a treatment program for each participant in the diversion program with requirements for supervision and surveillance. (g) To hold a general meeting at least twice...
Criteria for acceptance into the diversion program shall include all of the following: (a) the applicant shall be licensed as a physician assistant by the examining committee and shall...
A participant may be terminated from the program for any of the following reasons: (a) the participant has successfully completed the treatment program; (b) the participant has failed to comply...
In addition to the criteria and causes set forth in Section 3534.4, the examining committee may set forth in its regulations additional criteria for admission to the program or...
All examining committee and committee records and records of proceedings and participation of a physician assistant in a program shall be confidential and are not subject to discovery or subpoena....
A fee may be charged for participation in the program....
If the examining committee contracts with any other entity to carry out this section, the executive officer of the examining committee, or his or her delegatee, shall review the...
Participation in a diversion program shall not be a defense to any disciplinary action which may be taken by the examining committee. This section does not preclude the examining committee...
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, physicians and surgeons licensed by the Osteopathic Medical Board of California may use or employ physician assistants provided (1)...
(a) Subject to the other provisions of this article, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, hereafter in this article referred to as the office, shall...
(a) Prior to establishment of an ongoing international medical graduate physician assistant training program, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall...
Any person who has satisfactorily completed the program established by this article shall be eligible for licensure by the committee as a physician assistant if the person has complied...
Both the pilot and the ongoing training program shall provide training at no cost to the participants in return for a written, enforceable agreement by the participants to,...
(a) The Legislature recognizes that the goal of this program would be compromised if participants do not observe their commitments under this program to provide the required service in...
The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall, in addition to other duties described in this article, do all of the following: (a) Determine those areas of the state that...
The Physician Assistant Training Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury for the purpose of receipt of funds collected pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 3537.30....
The program established pursuant to this article shall not be funded, directly or indirectly, from an increase in the fees charged to physician assistants, supervising physicians,...
No General Fund revenues shall be expended to carry out this article. The implementation of the pilot program and, if applicable, the permanent program established by this article...
A physician assistants corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so long as that corporation...
It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or indirectly, or assist in or...
A physician assistant corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional conduct under any statute or regulation, now...
The name of a physician assistant corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional services shall contain the words physician assistant, and wording...
Except as provided in Sections 13401.5 and 13403 of the Corporations Code, each shareholder, director and officer of a physician assistant corporation, except an assistant secretary and...
The income of a physician assistant corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401 of the...
The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including regulations requiring (a) that the bylaws of a physician assistant...