Nursing Practice Act
California · BPC · §§ 2700 to 2717 · 19 sections
Overview
The Nursing Practice Act governs the practice of nursing as a licensed profession, establishing who is required to hold a license, whom the act does and does not reach, and the conditions under which certain medical acts may be delegated. It creates a regulatory board — setting its membership, eligibility requirements, terms, officers, staffing, and operating procedures — and vests that board with rulemaking authority, the power to set fees, responsibility for approving programs of nursing education, and the use of standardized examinations for licensure. The act also builds out the oversight side of that scheme, providing for complaints, disciplinary action against license holders, and enforcement, together with advisory committees and authority to operate limited pilot programs.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 2 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 3 Cal. 3d 529 - Regents of University of California v. Superior Court
Sections covered
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2700Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2701Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2701.5Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2702Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2703Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2706Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2707Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2708Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2708.1Administration1 cite
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2709Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2709.5Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2710Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2710.5Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2712Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2713Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2714Administration1 cite
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2715Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2716Administration
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2717Administration
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