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AB-2704 Healing arts: licensees: data collection.(2019-2020)



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SECTION 1.

 Section 502 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:

502.
 (a) A board that supervises healing arts licensees under this division shall collect workforce data from its licensees as specified in subdivision (b) for future workforce planning. The data may be collected at the time of electronic application for a license and license renewal, or at least biennially from a scientifically selected random sample of licensees.
(b) (1) The workforce data collected by each board about its licensees shall include, at a minimum, information concerning all of the following:
(A) City, county, and ZIP Code of practice.
(B) Type of employer or classification of primary practice site among the types of practice sites specified by the board, including, but not limited to, clinic, hospital, managed care organization, or private practice.
(C) Work hours.
(D) Titles of positions held.
(E) Time spent in direct patient care.
(F) Clinical practice area.
(G) Race or ethnicity, subject to paragraph (2).
(H) Gender or gender identity.
(I) Languages spoken.
(J) Educational background.
(K) Future work intentions.
(L) Job satisfaction ratings.
(2) A licensee may, but is not required to, report their race or ethnicity to the board.
(c) Each board shall maintain the confidentiality of the information it receives from licensees under this section and shall only release information in an aggregate form that cannot be used to identify an individual.
(d) Each board shall produce reports containing the workforce data it collects pursuant to this section, at a minimum, on a biennial basis. Aggregate information collected pursuant to this section shall be posted on each board’s internet website.
(e) Each board, or the Department of Consumer Affairs on its behalf, shall, beginning on July 1, 2021, and annually thereafter, provide the data it collects pursuant to this section to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development in a manner directed by the office that allows for inclusion of the data into the annual report it produces pursuant to Section 128052 of the Health and Safety Code.

SEC. 2.

 Section 2717 of the Business and Professions Code is repealed.

2717.
 (a) The board shall incorporate regional forecasts into its biennial analyses of the nursing workforce conducted pursuant to Section 502.
(b) The board shall develop a plan to address regional areas of shortage identified by its nursing workforce forecast.

SEC. 3.

 Section 2852.5 of the Business and Professions Code is repealed.

SEC. 4.

 Section 3518.1 of the Business and Professions Code is repealed.

SEC. 5.

 Section 3770.1 of the Business and Professions Code is repealed.

SEC. 6.

 Section 4506 of the Business and Professions Code is repealed.

SEC. 7.
 The Legislature finds and declares that Section 1 of this act, which adds Section 502 of the Business and Professions Code, imposes a limitation on the public’s right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies within the meaning of Section 3 of Article I of the California Constitution. Pursuant to that constitutional provision, the Legislature makes the following findings to demonstrate the interest protected by this limitation and the need for protecting that interest:
In order to protect the privacy of licensees, while also gathering useful workforce data, it is necessary that some information collected from licensees only be released in aggregate form.