California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 2 — Healing ArtsChapter 1.6 — Health Care Professional Disaster Response ActSection 921
(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.
Notes
Establishes legislative findings that disasters may create shortages of qualified health care practitioners and that practitioners with lapsed or inactive licenses could potentially help if licensing requirements and fees were streamlined. States legislative intent to address those matters through the Health Care Professional Disaster Response Act, without itself imposing an operative licensing requirement.
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