Title BPC — California Bus. & Prof. Code

(a) As used in this chapter, “unlicensed laboratory personnel” means a laboratory aide, histocompatibility technician, cardiopulmonary technician, or other person performing the activities authorized by Section 1269. (b) Any person who is authorized under California law or regula…

As used in this chapter, “school” means any place, establishment, or institution organized and operated to offer training for one or more of the personnel classifications included in this chapter or the regulations pertaining thereto.

As used in this chapter, “health fair” means a program of health assessment procedures offered to the general public that may include screening, self-ordered, or diagnostic clinical laboratory tests or examinations performed by a clinical laboratory licensed or registered under s…

(a) (1) Each clinical laboratory shall maintain records, equipment, and facilities that are adequate and appropriate for the services rendered. (2) (A) Except for tests or examinations classified as waived under CLIA, each clinical laboratory shall enroll, and demonstrate success…

(a) The Department of Health Services shall develop, and provide to all licensed clinical laboratories, a form in triplicate to be used by employees, agents, and couriers of licensed clinical laboratories to give notice when a specimen storage container has been improperly secure…

The department may employ special examiners, and may make regulations for the conduct of examinations under this chapter.

The department may approve schools that are accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences.

(a) The department may approve any of the following seeking to provide clinical laboratory scientist programs for instruction in clinical laboratory technique that, in the judgment of the department, will provide instruction adequate to prepare individuals to meet the requirement…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is the public policy of the state to ensure that California’s laboratory standards, including its laboratory personnel standards, be sustained in order to provide accurate, reliable, and necessary test results. The Legislature furthe…

The department may, pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, adopt, amend, or repeal any regulations necessary for the administration or enforcement of this chapter.

The department shall conduct a study to determine whether the persons conducting tests in physician office laboratories under paragraph (12) of subdivision (b) of, and paragraph (10) of subdivision (c) of Section 1206.5, produce accurate, reliable, and necessary test results comp…

(a) In order to carry out this chapter, any duly authorized representative of the department may do any of the following: (1) Enter or inspect on an announced or unannounced basis any building, premise, equipment, materials, records, or information at any reasonable time to secur…

Annually the department may compile and may thereafter publish and sell a directory of persons within the state licensed under the provisions of this chapter who hold unsuspended, unforfeited and unrevoked licenses. The directory may also contain a copy of the provisions of this …

Every person or clinical laboratory licensed or registered under this chapter shall report to the department, within 30 days thereof, any change of name or address.

The department shall appoint a multidisciplinary committee to assist, advise, and make recommendations for the establishment of rules and regulations necessary to insure proper administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and to assist and advise the departmen…

This chapter does not authorize any person to practice medicine and surgery or to furnish the services of physicians for the practice of medicine and surgery. This chapter does not repeal or in any manner affect any provision of this code relating to the practice of medicine. Thi…

(a) This chapter applies to all clinical laboratories in California or receiving biological specimens originating in California for the purpose of performing a clinical laboratory test or examination, and to all persons performing clinical laboratory tests or examinations or enga…

(a) A primary care clinic, licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1204 of the Health and Safety Code, that is operating within a network of primary care clinics, may be issued a license to operate a clinical laboratory pursuant to Section 1265, which authorizes the condu…

Any person duly licensed under the provisions of this chapter to perform tests called for in a clinical laboratory may perform skin tests for specific diseases, arterial puncture, venipuncture, or skin puncture for purposes of withdrawing blood or for clinical laboratory test pur…

Notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 1241, the department may by regulation authorize laboratory personnel certified pursuant to Section 1246 to perform venipuncture, arterial puncture, or skin puncture for the purposes of withdrawing blood or for …

(a) Any registered nurse licensed under the provisions of Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 2700) of Division 2 may perform arterial puncture, venipuncture, or skin puncture for the purposes of withdrawing blood or for test purposes upon authorization from any licensed physician…

A student regularly matriculated in any college or university accredited by an accrediting agency acceptable to the department, or in any legally chartered school approved by the department for training purposes may perform arterial puncture, venipuncture, or skin puncture as a p…

(a) Nothing in this chapter shall restrict, limit, or prevent a program of nondiagnostic general health assessment provided that: (1) The program meets the requirements of Section 1265 and complies with the requirements of CLIA for waived testing. (2) The purpose of the program i…

Thirty days prior to operating a program of nondiagnostic general health assessment, the entity or person operating that program shall file the following documentation with the local health officer in each county in which the program shall operate: (a) The location of the program…

Responsibility for enforcement of Sections 1244 and 1244.1 shall be with the local health officer or his or her authorized designee, including public health laboratory directors. Nothing in this section shall prevent the department from using any necessary enforcement actions for…

Any fee for the filing of documentation and related enforcement activities pursuant to Section 1244, 1244.1, and 1244.3 shall be determined by the local enforcement agency and shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100) except that those fees shall be adjusted annually by any ann…

(a) Any individual may perform a blood gas analysis if all the following conditions exist: (1) He or she has earned a high school diploma or equivalent, as determined by HCFA pursuant to CLIA. (2) He or she performs the blood gas analysis in a clinic or a general acute care hospi…

(a) (1) On and after the effective date of the regulations specified in paragraph (2), any unlicensed person employed by a clinical laboratory performing the duties described in this section shall possess a valid and current certification as a certified phlebotomy technician issu…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person may request, and any licensed clinical laboratory or public health laboratory may perform, the laboratory tests specified in this section. A registered clinical laboratory may perform the laboratory tests specified in this se…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a person may perform a total protein test using a digital refractometer in a licensed plasma collection center in this state, if the department, as part of its routine, fee-supported inspection of the licensed plasma collection center, including…

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Hemodialysis Technician Training Act.

For the purpose of this article, the following terms have the following meaning: (a) “Immediate supervision” means supervision of dialysis treatment in the same room in which the dialysis treatment is being performed. (b) “Department” means the State Department of Public Health. …

The treatment of patients by a hemodialysis technician includes performing venipuncture and arterial puncture for the purpose of providing dialysis treatment for a patient. The treatment of patients includes the administration of local anesthetics, heparin, and sodium chloride so…

The department may adopt regulations it deems necessary to implement this article.

A hemodialysis clinic or unit within a licensed clinic or hospital, as defined respectively in Sections 1204 and 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, may operate a hemodialysis training and testing program. A hemodialysis technician training program and competency test, provided u…

(a) Except during training under immediate supervision, and except as provided in Section 1247.62, no person shall provide services as a hemodialysis technician without being certified by the department as a Certified Hemodialysis Technician (CHT). (b) This article does not apply…

To be certified by the department as a Certified Hemodialysis Technician (CHT), a person shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) Have a high school diploma or equivalency, or have greater than four years of work experience in dialysis as of October 14, 2008. (b) Have su…

(a) Certification of a hemodialysis technician issued by the department pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1247.6 shall be valid for four years. (b) A certified hemodialysis technician applying for renewal of his or her certification shall submit proof that he or she has obta…

A hemodialysis technician may obtain the in-service training or continuing education required by subdivision (b) of Section 1247.63 from one or more of the following sources: (a) Health-related courses offered by accredited postsecondary institutions. (b) Health-related courses o…

(a) The department may deny, suspend, or revoke the certification of a hemodialysis technician if it finds that the hemodialysis technician is not in compliance with this article, or any regulations adopted by the department to administer this article. (b) The department may deny…

An employee in training shall be classified as a hemodialysis technician trainee and shall be under the immediate supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon or licensed registered nurse whenever involved in the treatment of a patient, as described in Section 1247.3.

Each hemodialysis unit or clinic shall have information available for inspection by the department survey teams which verifies that the hemodialysis technicians employed at the unit or clinic meet the requirements of Section 1247.61.

No person or entity shall provide chronic dialysis services to patients in this state unless the services are provided under the direction of a chronic dialysis clinic, licensed pursuant to Section 1204 of the Health and Safety Code, or a general acute care hospital, licensed pur…

The department shall issue a clinical laboratory bioanalyst’s license to each person who is a lawful holder of a degree of master of arts, master of science, or an equivalent or higher degree as determined by the department with a major in chemical, physical, biological, or clini…

The department shall issue a histocompatibility laboratory director’s license to each person who meets the qualifications specified in Section 1209.1.

(a) The department shall issue a medical laboratory technician license to each person who meets the following requirements: (1) Has met the requirements of this chapter and any reasonable qualifications established by regulations of the department, including, but not limited to, …

(a) (1) The department shall issue a clinical laboratory scientist’s or a limited clinical laboratory scientist’s license to each person who is a lawful holder of a baccalaureate or an equivalent or higher degree, who has applied for the license on forms provided by the departmen…

(a) The department may issue limited clinical laboratory scientist’s licenses in chemistry, microbiology, toxicology, histocompatibility, immunohematology, genetic molecular biology, cytogenetics, laboratory genetics, reproductive biology, or other areas of laboratory specialty o…

The department may issue a limited clinical laboratory scientist’s license in cytogenetics to any person with a minimum of seven years of work experience in this state as a cytogenetic technologist who provides evidence of satisfactory performance on a written examination adminis…

No clinical laboratory scientist’s or limited clinical laboratory scientist’s license shall be issued by the department except after examination; provided, that a temporary clinical laboratory scientist’s license or a temporary limited clinical laboratory scientist’s license may …