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Bus. & Prof. Code, § 1263 · Article 4. Licensing

Bus. & Prof. Code, § 1263

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Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

The department shall license as trainees those individuals desiring to train for either a clinical laboratory scientist’s license or a limited clinical laboratory scientist’s license, providing those individuals meet the academic requirements.

No trainee license shall be issued unless the applicant has completed at least 90 semester hours or equivalent quarter hours of university or college work or the essential equivalent as determined by the department which must have included at least 23 semester hours or equivalent quarter hours of courses in the sciences as determined by regulations of the department. Applicants who have completed military training schools may be granted academic credit toward licensure by the department on the basis of recommendations made by the American Council on Education.

Applicants shall apply for the license on forms provided by the department and meet the requirements of this chapter and any standards as are established by regulations of the department.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 510, Sec. 28. Effective January 1, 1996.

Source of truth

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