Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 921
921
Effective Jan 1, 2003Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1085, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2003.
(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.
- (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.