(a) The Physician and Surgeon Health and Wellness Program Account is hereby established within the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California. Any fees collected by the board pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be deposited in the Physician and Surgeon Health and Wellness Program Account and shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the support of the program.

(b) The board shall adopt regulations to determine the appropriate fee that a physician and surgeon participating in the program shall provide to the board. The fee amount adopted by the board shall be set at a level sufficient to cover all costs for participating in the program, including any administrative costs incurred by the board to administer the program.

Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 2340.8

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • board: as used in this chapter means the Medical Board of California. See California Business and Professions Code 2002
  • Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs, unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Business and Professions Code 15

(c) Subject to appropriation by the Legislature, the board may use moneys from the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California to support the initial costs for the board to establish the program under this article, except these moneys shall not be used to cover any costs for individual physician and surgeon participation in the program.

(Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 591, Sec. 1. (SB 1177) Effective January 1, 2017.)

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