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15 entriesSection 2770Establishes legislative intent that the Board of Registered Nursing identify and rehabilitate registered nurses whose competency may be impaired by alcohol, other…Section 2770.1Defines “board” as the Board of Registered Nursing, “committee” as an intervention evaluation committee created by the article, and “program manager” as…Section 2770.2Establishes one or more five-person intervention evaluation committees appointed by board majority, with no board member serving. Requires three active California registered…Section 2770.3Requires each member of a committee to receive the per diem and expenses provided under the referenced compensation provision. Committee members are…Section 2770.4Establishes three committee members as the quorum required to transact business at a meeting and requires a majority vote of the committee…Section 2770.5Requires each committee to elect a chairperson and a vice chairperson from among its own members. The selection must come from the…Section 2770.6Requires the board to administer the provisions of the article. Establishes administration of every provision contained in that article as a responsibility…Section 2770.7Requires the board to set intervention-program acceptance, denial, and termination criteria and limits participation to nurses who voluntarily request it. Allows investigations…Section 2770.8Establishes intervention evaluation committees under the program manager's direction and requires them to evaluate nurses requesting participation, designate treatment services, review participant…Section 2770.9Requires the intervention committee to inform every registered nurse requesting program participation about the procedures followed in the program, the nurse's rights…Section 2770.10Allows an intervention evaluation committee, despite the referenced public-meeting law, to convene in closed session to consider reports concerning a registered nurse…Section 2770.11Requires a registered nurse in an intervention program to cooperate with the rehabilitation program and allows termination for noncompliance. Requires every termination…Section 2770.12Requires records of successful intervention-program participation to be purged and makes board and committee program records confidential and generally protected from discovery…Section 2770.13Requires the board to provide legal representation to any person who makes reports under the article to a committee or the board…Section 2770.14Requires the board to produce reports containing information about intervention-program cases accepted, denied, or terminated, including whether termination involved compliance or noncompliance.…