California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

• Section 3500.
  In its concern with the growing shortage and geographic maldistribution of health care services in California, the Legislature intends to establish in this chapter a...
• Section 3500.5.
  This chapter shall be known and cited as the Physician Assistant Practice Act.(Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1104, Sec. 1.9.)
• Section 3501.
  (a) As used in this chapter:(1) “Board” means the Physician Assistant Board.(2) “Approved program” means a program for the education of physician assistants that has been formally approved...
• Section 3502.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a physician assistant may perform those medical services as set forth by the regulations adopted under this chapter when the services...
• Section 3502.1.
  (a) In addition to the services authorized in the regulations adopted by the Medical Board of California, and except as prohibited by Section 3502, while under...
• Section 3502.1.5.
  Neither this chapter nor any other provision of law shall be construed to prohibit a physician assistant from administering or providing buprenorphine to a patient,...
• Section 3502.2.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant may perform the physical examination and any other specified medical services that are required pursuant to...
• Section 3502.3.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addition to any other practices that meet the general criteria set forth in this chapter or the Medical...
• Section 3502.4.
  (a) In order to receive authority from his or her supervising physician and surgeon to perform an abortion by aspiration techniques pursuant to Section 2253, a...
• Section 3502.5.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician assistant may perform those medical services permitted pursuant to Section 3502 during any state of war emergency,...
• Section 3503.
  No person other than one who has been licensed to practice as a physician assistant shall practice as a physician assistant or in a similar...
• Section 3503.5.
  (a) A person licensed under this chapter who in good faith renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency that occurs outside both the place...

Last modified: October 22, 2018