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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Menjivar</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 850 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts. </ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Healing arts: standards for licensure or certification.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts professions and vocations by boards established within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law prohibits a healing arts board or examining committee within the Department of Consumer Affairs from requiring, by regulation, an applicant for licensure or certification to be a member of, to be certified by, to be eligible to be certified or registered by, or otherwise meet the standards of a specified private voluntary association or professional society, except as provided.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.</html:p>
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Section 850 of the
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<html:p>No healing arts licensing board or examining committee under the Department of Consumer Affairs shall by regulation require an applicant for licensure or certification to be a member of, to be certified by, to be eligible to be certified or registered by, or otherwise meet the standards of a specified private voluntary association or professional society, except as provided for in this article.</html:p>
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