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(a) (1) The Director of Consumer Affairs shall appoint a scope of practice committee to perform occupational analyses and prepare written reports on any bills introduced in either house of the Legislature that seek to substantively expand the scope of practice of any person licensed under this division or under any initiative act referred to in this division.(2) The committee shall be comprised of five members as follows:
(A) Two academics, one representing each side of the scope of practice issue.
(B) Two practitioners, one representing each side of the scope of practice issue.
(C) One public member.
(b) The Assembly Committee on Business and Professions or the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development, upon notification of an introduced bill proposing to substantively expand the scope of a healing arts practice, shall provide the bill to the scope of practice committee for performance of the occupational analysis pursuant to subdivision (a).
(c) The committee shall, within 90 days of receipt of the bill, prepare a written report of its analysis pursuant to subdivision (a). The written report shall do all of the following:
(1) Evaluate the education, training, and experience of all healing arts practices that would be affected by the proposed substantive expansion of the scope of practice.
(2) Evaluate the quality and quantity of the training provided by the health care professional degree curricula and postgraduate training programs to health care practitioners in active practice with regard to the increased scope of practice proposed.
(3) Review other states that have a scope of practice for the relevant healing arts practice that is identical or similar to the proposed change and any available information on how that scope of practice has affected the quality and cost of health care in those states.
(d) The reasonable cost of an occupational analysis and written report shall be paid by the licensing board for the healing arts practice that would be subject to the proposed expanded scope of practice from funds made available to the board for that purpose.