Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California under the Department of Consumer Affairs, which licenses physicians and surgeons and regulates their practice. Existing law requires specified disclosures to patients undergoing procedures involving collagen injections, defined as any substance derived from, or combined with, animal protein. Existing law also requires the board to adopt extraction and postoperative care standards in regard to body liposuction procedures performed by a physician and surgeon outside of a general acute care hospital. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor.

This bill would enact the Reusable Adipose Cannula Full Disclosure Act, which would require a physician and surgeon to provide specified written disclosures to a patient prior to that patient undergoing any adipose medical procedure, as defined, for which a reusable adipose cannula, as defined, is to be used. The bill would define adipose as tissue made up of fat cells located beneath the skin, and adipose cannula, generally, as the device used to remove adipose from, or inject adipose into, a patient. The bill would also provide that a violation of these provisions would not constitute a crime.