California Business and Professions Code

§ 1270

BPC § 1270 Effective Jan 1, 2016Div. 2 · Ch. 3 · Art. 4

Statute text

(a)On and after January 1, 1991, no person may perform examinations of cytological slides without first obtaining a license as a cytotechnologist from the department, except that those persons employed by licensed clinical laboratories as cytotechnologists and certified as cytotechnologists by the department on or before January 1, 1991, shall be licensed by the department on or before January 1, 1993. Cytotechnologist licenses shall be issued and renewed by the department for periods of two years. This subdivision shall not apply to persons holding a valid, unrevoked, unsuspended physician’s and surgeon’s certificate issued pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2000).

(b)The issuance of a cytotechnologist license shall be contingent upon the applicant’s satisfactory performance, as defined in regulation, in a competency testing program for cytotechnologists which may be administered by the department or by a competency testing service or program approved by the department. The competency testing program established pursuant to this section shall be periodically reviewed and revised by the department, if necessary, to ensure that the program is consistent with federal competency testing requirements issued under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (Public Law 100-578; 42 U.S.C. Sec. 263a, Section 353 of the Public Health Service Act).

(c)Notwithstanding subdivision (b), the department may issue a temporary cytotechnologist license to a person who satisfies the requirements for admission to the examination unless the person has failed a previous examination for a cytotechnologist license. A temporary license issued by the department pursuant to this subdivision shall be valid for a period of time not exceeding 90 days after the date the department has adopted a competency testing program pursuant to subdivision (b).

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 300, Sec. 1. (AB 599) Effective January 1, 2016.