Physical Therapy Board of California.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on how the board will be funded or staffed after January 1, 2031.

Physical Therapy Board of California

This law extends the Physical Therapy Board of California's authority until January 1, 2031 and sets rules for when they can consider petitions from people who want their licenses reinstated or modified.

What This Bill Does

• Extends until January 1, 2031, the board's power to enforce laws and appoint an executive officer.
• Expresses the intent of the Legislature to evaluate the Physical Therapy Board of California through a sunset review process.
• Adds rules about when the board can consider petitions from people who want their licenses back or modified penalties.
• Limits the board’s ability to consider petitions if the person is required to register as a sex offender, except in cases where it's only due to a misdemeanor.
• Also limits the board’s consideration of petitions if the crime involved certain sexual misconduct.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Physical Therapy Board of California
• Physical therapists and physical therapist assistants who are licensed by the board
• People whose licenses have been revoked or suspended and want to petition for reinstatement

Terms To Know

Sunset review

A process where a government agency is reviewed before its authority expires, to decide if it should continue.

Executive officer

The top official who runs an organization or department.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify what happens after January 1, 2031.
• Does not provide details on the exact nature of sexual misconduct that would prevent a petition from being considered.
• Does not include information about how the board will be funded or staffed.

Official Summary Text

AB 2774, as amended, Committee on Business and Professions.
Physical Therapy Board of California.
Existing law, the Physical Therapy Practice Act, establishes the Physical Therapy Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure, approval, and regulation of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.
Existing law prescribes specified fees for licenses issued by the board.
Existing law repeals
those provisions on January 1, 2027, at which time the board is subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature.
the board and its authority to employ an executive officer on January 1, 2027.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to evaluate the Physical Therapy Board of California through the joint legislative sunset review oversight process and to subsequently include in this bill recommendations produced through that process. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes to the above-described provisions.
This bill would extend the board’s authority to enforce and administer the act and to appoint an executive officer until January 1, 2031. The bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provisions prescribing fees for licenses issued by the board.
Existing law authorizes a person whose license has been revoked or suspended, or who has been placed on probation, to petition the board for reinstatement or modification of a penalty after a specified period of time has elapsed. Existing law prohibits the board from considering a petition while the petitioner is under sentence for any criminal offense, including any period of court-imposed probation or parole, or while there is an accusation or petition to revoke probation pending against the petitioner.
This bill would further prohibit the board from considering a petition if the applicant is required to register as a sex offender, as specified. The bill would except from this prohibition an applicant whose requirement to register as a sex offender is based solely on a misdemeanor conviction. The bill would also prohibit the board from considering a petition if the conduct underlying the petitioner’s conviction involved certain sexual misconduct.

Current Bill Text

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