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 AB-2256 Radiologist assistants.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 02/19/2026 09:00 PM

AB2256:v99#DOCUMENTBill Start

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2256

Introduced by Assembly Member Chen

February 19, 2026

 An act to add Section 114876 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to radiologist assistants. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2256, as introduced, Chen.
 Radiologist assistants.

Existing law, the Radiologic Technology Act, prohibits a person from administering or using diagnostic or therapeutic X-rays on human beings in this state, unless that person either qualifies for a specified exemption or has been certified or granted a permit by the State Department of Public Health, as specified, is acting within the scope of that certification or permit, and is acting under the supervision of a healing arts licensee. A person who violates a provision of the Radiologic Technology Act or regulation of the department adopted pursuant to that act is guilty of a misdemeanor.

This bill would prohibit a person from holding themselves out as a radiologist assistant unless the person meets certain requirements, including that they have passed the radiologist assistant examination, as specified, and that they maintain current registration
 with prescribed entities. The bill would require a radiologist assistant to work only under the supervision of a radiologist and would prohibit a radiologist assistant from functioning in that capacity independent of a supervising radiologist. The bill, among other things, would authorize a radiologist assistant to communicate and document initial clinical and imaging observations or procedures only to a radiologist for the radiologist’s use. The bill would authorize a supervising radiologist to delegate to a radiologist assistant, as the radiologist determines appropriate to the assistant’s competence, those tasks or services that a radiologist usually performs and is qualified to perform. The bill would provide that a violation of its provisions does not constitute a misdemeanor.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) The radiologist assistant is an advanced-level radiographer who has completed a nationally recognized radiologists assistant educational program and successfully completed a nationally recognized certification examination for radiologist assistants.

(b) Radiologist assistants are an extension of a radiologist and work under the supervision of a radiologist, as part of a radiologist-led team, performing medical imaging procedures within the scope of practice that the radiologist assistant is educationally prepared, clinically competent, and delegated by a radiologist to perform.

(c) Radiologist assistants do not hold the responsibility of diagnosing illnesses; however, radiologist assistants assist a radiologist by completing patient history, describing procedures, performing medical imaging procedures, and communicating initial clinical and imaging observations or procedure details only to the supervising radiologist for the radiologist’s use.

(d) Radiologist assistants work in hospitals, outpatient facilities, or diagnostic imaging centers. Radiologist assistants work only under the supervision and delegation of a radiologist.

(e) It is the intent of the Legislature that this act be implemented using existing certification, registration, and enforcement mechanisms and will not require the department to establish a new licensure category, program, or regulatory framework.

SEC. 2.

 Section 114876 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

114876.

 (a) No person shall hold themselves out to be a radiologist assistant, or use the title of “radiologist assistant,” or any other term, to imply or to suggest that the person is a radiologist assistant, unless the person meets all of the following requirements:

(1) The person has passed the radiologist assistant examination administered by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists, the radiology practitioner assistant examination administered by the Certification Board for