Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes physician assistants to receive training and perform first-trimester abortions via vacuum aspiration.

Highlights:

• Establishes the Physician Assistant Board to license and regulate physician assistants (Sec. 1). 

• Amends training requirements to instead require a physician assistant to achieve clinical competency by successfully completing requisite training, as described, in performing an abortion by aspiration techniques (Sec. 1). 

• authorize a physician assistant who has completed the training and achieved clinical competency, as described, to perform abortions by aspirations techniques without the personal presence of a supervising physician and surgeon, except as provided (Sec. 2).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes physician assistants to receive training and perform first-trimester abortions via vacuum aspiration.

Highlights:

• Establishes the Physician Assistant Board to license and regulate physician assistants (Sec. 1). 

• Amends training requirements to instead require a physician assistant to achieve clinical competency by successfully completing requisite training, as described, in performing an abortion by aspiration techniques (Sec. 1). 

• authorize a physician assistant who has completed the training and achieved clinical competency, as described, to perform abortions by aspirations techniques without the personal presence of a supervising physician and surgeon, except as provided (Sec. 2).

Full Bill Text