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AB-1666 Nursing schools: religious exception.(2023-2024)

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Date Published: 02/17/2023 09:00 PM
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1666


Introduced by Assembly Member Flora

February 17, 2023


An act to amend Section 2789 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1666, as introduced, Flora. Nursing schools: religious exception.
The Nursing Practice Act provides for the licensure and regulation of nurses by the Board of Registered Nursing within the Department of Consumer Affairs. That act establishes an exception for schools conducted by religious institutions for the purpose of training the adherents of that religion in the care of the sick in accordance with its religious tenets.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 2789 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

2789.
 None of the provisions of this chapter shall The provisions of this chapter shall not be applicable to any school or schools conducted by any well recognized church or denomination for the purpose of training the adherents of such church or denomination in the care of the sick in accordance with its religious tenets.