Section 128196.

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) The Access through Primary Care Project, known as Health Workforce Pilot Project (HWPP) No. 171, was approved in 2007 to teach new skills to nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, and physician assistants, and to evaluate the safety and efficacy of allowing nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, and physician assistants to use these new skills to perform first trimester aspiration abortions.

(b) The study investigators from the University of California find, from the data submitted to the office that trainees of the project have achieved competency and safely perform first trimester aspiration abortions using the new skills acquired in HWPP No. 171. The study investigators intend to undergo additional peer review of the data by submitting the results for publication in a nationally recognized, peer-reviewed journal.

(c) It is necessary to extend HWPP No. 171 to maintain the competencies of clinicians trained to date and to authorize continued training of new clinicians while the larger peer review process is conducted, and because HWPP No. 171 is likely to increase the availability of safe, early abortion care that is limited in many areas of California.

(d) It is the intent of the Legislature that HWPP No. 171 continue without interruption.

(e) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2014, deletes or extends that date.

(Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 450, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2013. Repealed as of January 1, 2014, by its own provisions.)