Title BPC — California Bus. & Prof. Code

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 …

Notwithstanding Section 135, an applicant for a clinical laboratory or limited technologist license who fails to pass the written examination two times shall not be eligible to be reexamined a third time until at least one year has elapsed from the date of the second examination.…

The department shall license as trainees those individuals desiring to train for either a clinical laboratory scientist’s license or a limited clinical laboratory scientist’s license, providing those individuals meet the academic requirements. No trainee license shall be issued u…

(a) (1) The department shall issue a clinical chemist, clinical microbiologist, clinical toxicologist, clinical genetic molecular biologist, clinical laboratory geneticist, clinical reproductive biologist, or clinical cytogeneticist license to each person who has applied for the …

(a) (1) A clinical laboratory performing clinical laboratory tests or examinations classified as of moderate or of high complexity under CLIA shall obtain a clinical laboratory license pursuant to this chapter. The department shall issue a clinical laboratory license to any perso…

(a) A primary care clinic that submits an application to the State Department of Public Health for clinic licensure pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1204 of the Health and Safety Code may submit prior to that submission, or concurrent therewith, an application for licensure…

(a) For purposes of this section, “digital materials” means digital laboratory data, digital results, and digital images that do not require a microscope or other equipment essential to a separate laboratory. (b) A pathologist who is performing pathology services at a primary lab…

(a) On or before June 30, 2025, the department shall consult with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the purpose described in subdivision (b). (b) (1) On or before January 1, 2026, the department, in consultation with the federal Centers for Medicare and M…

The clinical laboratory license and the license or current renewal permit of each person performing tests shall be conspicuously posted in the clinical laboratory.

Any denial, suspension, or revocation of a license under this chapter shall be conducted in compliance with Section 100171 of the Health and Safety Code.

Upon filing application therefor, containing such information as the department may require, and the payment of the license fee, the department shall issue to any person duly licensed under this chapter a duplicate license for one previously issued or, where there has been a chan…

(a) Unlicensed laboratory personnel may perform any of the activities identified in subdivision (b), in a licensed clinical laboratory, under the direct and constant supervision of a physician and surgeon, or a person licensed under this chapter other than a trainee, upon meeting…

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 1206.5 and 1269, within the specialty of pathology, a person certified as a pathologists’ assistant by the American Association of Pathologists’ Assistants, the Board of Registry of the American Society for Clinical Pathology, or another national accr…

The department may deny, suspend, or revoke any license, registration, or certificate issued under this chapter for performance by unlicensed laboratory personnel of any activity that is not authorized by Section 1269.

(a) On and after January 1, 1991, no person may perform examinations of cytological slides without first obtaining a license as a cytotechnologist from the department, except that those persons employed by licensed clinical laboratories as cytotechnologists and certified as cytot…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 1301, an application for the renewal of, and payment of the renewal fees for, a cytotechnologist license shall be governed by this section. (b) Application for renewal of a cytotechnologist license, accompanied by the fee set forth in Section 1300, sha…

(a) A cytotechnologist shall not examine more than 80 gynecologic slides in a 24-hour period when performing a manual review of slides. (b) The maximum workload limit in subdivision (a) is the maximum number of gynecologic slides that a cytotechnologist shall examine in a 24-hour…

(a) Clinical laboratories which are licensed pursuant to this chapter and provide cytology services shall, if the licensee ceases operation, preserve records, reports, cytology slides, and cell blocks as prescribed in subdivision (g) of Section 1271 and Section 1274. (b) Any pers…

A clinical laboratory shall participate in a state-approved proficiency testing program and demonstrate satisfactory performance in all of the laboratory specialities that include tests performed in the laboratory. Proficiency shall be tested in the following specialties: microbi…

The department shall establish standards for the evaluation of cytologic slides, for reporting the adequacy of cytologic slides, for a cytotechnologist competency program, and for a proficiency testing program for clinical laboratories providing cytology services.

The department shall, on or before January 1, 1992, develop or adopt a proficiency testing program for laboratories providing cytology services which may be administered by the department or by a proficiency testing service or program approved by the department. The proficiency p…

(a) A laboratory shall document to persons submitting cytologic samples for evaluation, on a quarterly basis, informational letters on all cases of HSIL (high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions), adenocarcinoma, or other malignant neoplasm. Documentation may consist of follow…

The department shall develop and implement regulations for continuing education for persons licensed pursuant to this chapter on or before January 1, 1992, after consulting with the multidisciplinary committee established pursuant to Section 1228, and other appropriate organizati…

It is unlawful for any person to represent himself or act as a licensed individual under this chapter unless he is, in fact, duly licensed under this chapter.

It is unlawful for any person to own, operate, maintain, direct, or engage in the business of operating a clinical laboratory, as defined in this chapter, unless he or she possesses a valid clinical laboratory license issued by the department. In the event a health facility does …

It is unlawful for any person, including a person who owns, operates, or directs a clinical laboratory, to provide, offer, or solicit, any form of payment or gratuity for human blood or any other biological specimen provided for the purpose of clinical laboratory testing or clini…

It is unlawful for any person to engage in clinical laboratory practice in a clinical laboratory unless he or she is a duly licensed physician and surgeon or is duly authorized to do so under this chapter.

It is unlawful for any person to perform venipuncture, skin puncture, or arterial puncture to collect a biological specimen unless he or she is authorized to do so under this chapter, the regulations adopted thereunder, or under other provisions of law.

(a) It is unlawful for any person to act with willful or wanton disregard for a person’s safety that exposes the person to a substantial risk of, or that causes, great bodily injury by affecting the integrity of a clinical laboratory test or examination result through improper co…

It is unlawful for any person to conduct, maintain, or operate a clinical laboratory unless he is a duly licensed physician and surgeon or is duly authorized to do so under the provisions of this chapter.

It is unlawful for a duly licensed physician and surgeon, or any person authorized to serve as director under this chapter, to serve only as a nominal director.

It is unlawful for any person conducting, maintaining, or operating a clinical laboratory to employ any person to perform clinical laboratory procedures unless the person is a duly licensed physician and surgeon or is duly authorized to do so under the provisions of this chapter.

It is unlawful for any person to operate a school or conduct any course for the purpose of training or preparing persons to perform duties, as defined under this chapter and regulations of the department, without having first secured the approval of the department as herein provi…