Amends existing law to provide for physician assistants and to revise provisions regarding licensure, registration, discipline, disability, and board composition.

This bill updates and modernizes provisions of the Medical Practice Act related to licensure, registration, discipline, disabled physicians or physician assistants, and member composition of the Board of Medicine and Physician Assistant Advisory Committee. For licensure, this bill removes barriers to practice by simplifying the requirements for expedited licensure by endorsement and removing the requirement that medical students be registered with the Board. This bill updates the discipline section to require more timely notification to the Board of felony criminal charges against a licensee and adds a disruptive provider clause, both of which the Board believes are necessary to protect the public adequately. This bill updates and simplifies the Disabled Physician Act by adding physician assistants and streamlining the Board's evaluation process, which will benefit licensees with serious mental and physical illnesses who may otherwise face disciplinary action by the Board. This bill also adds a physician assistant member to the Board, changes the Board's quorum requirement to 6 members, and adds a physician assistant and a public member to the Physician Assistant Advisory Committee, changing the Committee's quorum requirement to 3 members. Finally, the bill provides housekeeping updates to remove obsolete language, delete duplicative language, streamline the language throughout, and modernize the requirements of the Act.