Hier ist das Gesetz direkt von Gesetzgeber:
http://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB380/id/226814
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) In 2008, U.S. health care spending was about $7,681 per
resident and accounted for 16.2 percent of the nation's gross
domestic product; this is among the highest of all industrialized
countries. Expenditures in the United States on health care surpassed
$2.3 trillion in 2008, more than three times the $714 billion spent
in 1990, and over eight times the $253 billion spent in 1980.
(b) It is estimated that health care costs for chronic disease
treatment account for over 75 percent of national health
expenditures.
(c) Seven out of 10 deaths among Americans each year are from
chronic diseases. Heart disease, cancer, and stroke account for more
than 50 percent of all deaths each year.
(d) The last major report from the World Health Organization in
March 2003 concluded diet was a major factor in the cause of chronic
diseases.
(e) Dramatic increases in chronic diseases have been seen in Asian
countries since the end of WWII with the increase in the gross
national product and change to the Western diet.
(f) Only 19 percent of students believed that they had been
extensively trained in nutrition counseling. Fewer than 50 percent of
primary care physicians include nutrition or dietary counseling in
their patient visits.
(g) Practicing physicians continually rate their nutrition
knowledge and skills as inadequate. More than one-half of graduating
medical students report that the time dedicated to nutrition
instruction is inadequate.
SEC. 2. Section 2190.7 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
2190.7. (a) All physicians and surgeons shall complete a
mandatory continuing education course in the subject of nutrition and
lifestyle behavior for the treatment of chronic diseases. For the
purposes of this section, this course shall be a one-time requirement
of 12 7 credit hours within the
required minimum established by regulation, to be completed by
December 31, 2016. All physicians and surgeons licensed on and after
January 1, 2012, shall complete this requirement within four years of
their initial license or by their second renewal date, whichever
occurs first. The board may verify completion of this requirement on
the renewal application form.
(b) By regulatory action, the board may exempt a physician and
surgeon by practice status category from the requirement in
subdivision (a) if the physician and surgeon does not engage in
direct patient care, does not provide patient consultations, or does
not reside in the State of California.
(c) This section shall not apply to physicians and surgeons
practicing in pathology or radiology specialty areas.
