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AB-2060 Medical Board of California.(2021-2022)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 2001 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

2001.
 (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Medical Board of California that consists of 15 members, 7 8  of whom shall be public members.
(b) The Governor shall appoint 13 members to the board, subject to confirmation by the Senate, 5 6  of whom shall be public members. The Senate Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly shall each appoint a public member.
(c) In order to implement the amendments made by the act that added this subdivision, the first position held by a licensed physician and surgeon that becomes vacant on or after January 1, 2023, shall be converted to a public member position.
(c) (d)  This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2028, 2024,  and as of that date is repealed. Notwithstanding any other law, the repeal of this section renders the board subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature.

SEC. 2.

 Section 2007 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

2007.
 Members of the board shall only be appointed from persons who have been residents of this state for at least the five-year period preceding their appointment. Members of the board, except the public members, shall only be appointed from persons licensed as physicians and surgeons in this state. No person who in any manner owns any interest in any college, school, or institution engaged in medical instruction shall be appointed to the board. Four Three  of the physician members of the board shall hold faculty appointments in a clinical department of an approved medical school in the state, but not more than four members of the board may hold full-time appointments to the faculties of such medical schools.
The public members shall not be licensees of the board.

SEC. 3.

 Section 2008 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

2008.
 The board may appoint panels from its members for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations established in subdivision (c) of Section 2004. Any panel appointed under this section shall at no time be comprised of less than four members and the number of public members assigned to the panel shall not exceed the number of licensed physician and surgeon members assigned to the panel.  fewer than four members.  Each panel shall annually elect a chair and a vice chair.