Workforce
The Medical Board of California will be required to publish on its Web site information about physicians' foreign language skills under a measure (AB 2283) Schwarzenegger signed. The information is intended to help the state assess whether some areas are underserved by physicians with needed foreign language-skills and cultural competencies (Bill text, 9/29).
Schwarzenegger signed AB 2408 by Assembly member Gloria Negrete McLeod (D-Montclair), which will permit the California Board of Pharmacy to report to other state or federal agencies violations of laws or regulations by pharmacies not based in California but registered to do business in California (Bill text, 8/31).