SB 1480 Summary

• Reduces minimum board meeting requirement from 3 times to 2 times per year for Department of Consumer Affairs boards, and requires complaint prioritization guidelines to include "allegations of serious harm to a minor" by July 1, 2019

• Modifies Medical Board regulations for postgraduate training licensees: removes 12-month and 27-month limitations on license exemptions, allows board discretion to extend beyond 39-month exemption, requires 90-day licensure deadline for applicants trained out-of-state, and requires program directors to report trainee status changes within 30 days

• Revises fees and licensing requirements across multiple health professions including physicians ($371 application fee), nurses, vocational nurses, optometrists, naturopaths, veterinarians, and chiropractors, with specific fee schedules established for each profession

• Establishes new regulations for veterinary medicine including emergency veterinary services within 25-mile radius of declared emergencies without requiring veterinarian-client-patient relationship, mandatory client consultation when prescribing dangerous drugs, and restrictions on veterinary college graduates performing registered veterinary technician tasks

• Extends psychoanalysis registration provisions indefinitely (repeals January 1, 2019 sunset), authorizes massage therapy examination requirement waiver from January 1, 2019 to January 1, 2021, and deletes January 1, 2019 repeal of certified common interest development manager provisions