Dentistry: outreach and support program.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill's status is unclear since it was ordered inactive.

Dental Board Outreach Program

This bill requires the Dental Board of California to create a program that helps students from underserved communities become dentists and updates rules for removing members of the Medical Board of California.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Dental Board to develop, implement, and maintain an outreach and support program to recruit students from underserved communities in the state to pursue education and licensure in the field of dentistry.
• Makes sure the Dental Board does at least two outreach activities per year focused on students from underserved communities.
• Tells the Dental Board to provide a summary of actions taken pursuant to the bill’s provisions as part of its report to the Legislature through the sunset review process.
• Updates rules for removing members of the Medical Board appointed by certain authorities if they neglect their duties, are incompetent, or engage in unprofessional conduct.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Dental Board of California
• Students from underserved communities interested in dentistry
• Members of the Medical Board of California

Terms To Know

Dental Board of California

A group that licenses and regulates dentists in California.

Medical Board of California

A group that licenses and regulates doctors in California.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much money will be given to the Dental Board for this program.
• It is unclear if or when the bill will become law since it was ordered inactive.
• The changes to removing Medical Board members only apply to those appointed by certain authorities.

Official Summary Text

AB 1130, as amended, Berman.
Medical Board of California: appointments: removal.
Dentistry: outreach and support program.
Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, establishes the Dental Board of California in the Department of Consumer Affairs to license and regulate the practice of dentistry.
This bill would require the board to develop, implement, and maintain an outreach and support program to recruit students from underserved communities in the state to pursue education and licensure in the field of dentistry. The bill would establish duties the board would be required to carry out in that regard, including conducting at least 2 outreach activities per year focused on students from underserved communities. The bill would require the board to provide a summary of actions
taken pursuant to the bill’s provisions as part of its report to the Legislature through the sunset review process.
Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, establishes the Medical Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of the practice of medicine by physicians and surgeons. Under the act, the board consists of 15 members, including 13 members appointed by the Governor, one appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, and one appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, as prescribed. The act authorizes the appointing power to remove any member of the board for neglect of duty, incompetency, or unprofessional conduct.
Under other existing law with respect to the department and its constituent boards, an appointing authority has power to remove from office at any time a member of any board appointed by the appointing authority for continued neglect of duties
required by law, or for incompetence, or unprofessional or dishonorable conduct. Existing law prohibits this provision from being construed as a limitation or restriction on the power of the appointing authority conferred on the appointing authority by any other provision of law to remove any member of any board.
This bill would revise the removal authority of an appointing power of the Medical Board of California granted by the Medical Practice Act to instead authorize the removal of a member of the board appointed by that authority for continued neglect of duties required by law, or for incompetence, or unprofessional or dishonorable conduct.

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