Health and Safety Code section 128130

For the purposes of this article:

(a)

“Department” means the Department of Health Care Access and Information.

(b)

“Approved project” means an educational or training program approved by the office that does any of the following on a pilot program basis:

(1)

Teaches new skills to existing categories of health care personnel.

(2)

Develops new categories of health care personnel.

(3)

Accelerates the training of existing categories of health care personnel.

(4)

Teaches new health care roles to previously untrained persons, and that has been so designated by the department.

(c)

“Trainee” means a person to be taught health care skills.

(d)

“Supervisor” means a person designated by the project sponsor who already possesses the skills to be taught the trainees and is certified or licensed in California to perform the health care tasks involving the skills.

(e)

“Health care services” means the practice of medicine, dentistry, nursing, including, but not limited to, specialty areas of nursing such as midwifery, pharmacy, optometry, podiatry, and psychology.

Source: Section 128130, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=128130.­ (updated Jul. 27, 2021; accessed Sep. 1, 2025).

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