Naturopathic medicine.

Existing law provides for the regulation and licensure of clinical laboratories and clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law prohibits the performance of a clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 unless the test or examination is performed under the overall operation and administration of a laboratory director, as defined, and is performed by specified persons, including certain health care personnel. Existing law, the Naturopathic Doctors Act, provides for the regulation and licensure of naturopathic doctors by the Naturopathic Medicine Committee.