California Business and Professions Code

§ 1223

BPC § 1223 Effective Oct 11, 2009Div. 2 · Ch. 3 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)The Legislature finds and declares that it is the public policy of the state to ensure that California’s laboratory standards, including its laboratory personnel standards, be sustained in order to provide accurate, reliable, and necessary test results. The Legislature further finds that inspections are the most effective means of furthering this policy. It is not the intent of the Legislature to reduce in any way the resources available to the department for inspections, but rather to provide the department with the greatest flexibility to concentrate its resources where they can be most effective. It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for an inspection process that includes state-based inspection components and that determines compliance with federal and state requirements for clinical laboratories.

(b)The department shall employ, or contract for, inspectors, special agents, and investigators, and provide any clerical and technical assistance as necessary to administer this chapter and may incur other expenses as necessary.

(c)Laboratories accredited by a private, nonprofit organization shall be deemed by the department to meet state licensure or registration requirements, and shall be issued a certificate of that deemed status by the department, provided that both of the following conditions are met:

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 201, Sec. 2. (SB 744) Effective October 11, 2009.