Clinics: licensure and regulation: exemption.

Existing law provides for the regulation and licensure of clinics, as defined, by the State Department of Public Health. Under existing law, specified types of clinics are exempted from these licensing provisions, including a clinic that is conducted, maintained, or operated by a federally recognized Indian tribe and is located on land recognized as tribal land by the federal government. This bill would expand that exemption to also include a clinic conducted, maintained, or operated by a federally recognized Indian tribe under a contract with the United States pursuant to federal law, without regard to the location of the clinic, except that if the clinic chooses to apply to the department for a state facility license, then the department would retain authority to regulate that clinic as a primary care clinic. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1206 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by AB 1130 that would become operative if this bill and AB 1130 are chaptered and this bill is chaptered last.