California Business and Professions Code

§ 809

BPC § 809 Effective Jan 1, 2012Div. 2 · Ch. 1 · Art. 11

Statute text

(a)The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following:

(1)In 1986, Congress enacted the federal Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 11101 et seq.), to encourage physicians and surgeons to engage in effective professional peer review, but giving each state the opportunity to “opt-out” of some of the provisions of the federal act.

(2)Because of deficiencies in the federal act and the possible adverse interpretations by the courts of the federal act, it is preferable for California to “opt-out” of the federal act and design its own peer review system.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 381, Sec. 10. (SB 146) Effective January 1, 2012.