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Board advances 2026 sunset report draft, pushes for fictitious-name permits and title protections
Summary
Board staff reviewed a draft 2026 sunset report and recommended several policy requests — including authority to require fictitious‑name permits and stronger title protection — and outlined a timeline for finalizing the report and gathering additional data before November.
Board staff reviewed the draft 2026 sunset report at the Sept. 17 meeting of the California Board of Naturopathic Medicine and asked members to confirm content and prioritize several new issues the board plans to deliver to the Legislature.
Staff member Rebecca told members she had added background, data tables and draft recommended solutions and asked for direction about where to place historical context and technical comparisons of educational training in the report. "I will be adding the fictitious name permit information back in here," Rebecca said, describing a proposal to require licensees who practice under any name other than their legal name to register that name with the board.
Why it matters: staff and board members framed the new items as consumer‑protection measures the Legislature requested during the previous sunset review. The board is seeking statutory authority to require fictitious name permits (to link business names to licensees for enforcement), expanded title protection (to limit use of terms that imply licensed…
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