Existing law establishes the Department of Consumer Affairs in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The department is composed of boards for purposes of licensing and regulating various professions and vocations, including healing arts licensees. The boards are established for the purpose of ensuring that those private businesses and professions deemed to engage in activities that have potential impact upon the public health, safety, and welfare are adequately regulated in order to protect the people of California. Existing law makes certain acts by a healing arts licensee, including, but not limited to, sexual abuse, misconduct, or relations with a patient, unprofessional conduct and grounds for disciplinary action.

This bill would prohibit a healing arts licensee, as defined, from performing an examination or test on a patient for the purpose of determining whether the patient is a virgin. The bill would also make a violation of its provisions unprofessional conduct and grounds for disciplinary action by the licensing board for the healing arts licensee.