California Business and Professions Code 921 – (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following:(1) In …
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(a) The Legislature finds and declares the following:
(1) In times of national or state disasters, a shortage of qualified health care practitioners may exist in areas throughout the state where they are desperately required to respond to public health emergencies.
Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 921
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Business and Professions Code 21
(2) Health care practitioners with lapsed or inactive licenses could potentially serve in those areas where a shortage of qualified health care practitioners exists, if licensing requirements were streamlined and fees curtailed.
(b) It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature to address these matters through the provisions of the Health Care Professional Disaster Response Act.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1085, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2003.)