Bill Text: CA AB1588 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Bill 1588 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Professions and vocations: reservist licensees: fees and

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-4)

Status: (Passed) 2012-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 742, Statutes of 2012. [AB1588 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1588-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1588	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  742
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 28, 2012
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 29, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 25, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 5, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Atkins
   (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Cook and Nielsen)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Allen, Bill  Berryhill, Block,
Butler, Beth Gaines, Pan, V. Manuel P�rez, Williams, and Yamada)

                        FEBRUARY 6, 2012

   An act to add Section 114.3 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1588, Atkins. Professions and vocations: reservist licensees:
fees and continuing education.
   Existing law provides for the regulation of various professions
and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs and
for the licensure or registration of individuals in that regard.
Existing law authorizes any licensee whose license expired while he
or she was on active duty as a member of the California National
Guard or the United States Armed Forces to reinstate his or her
license without examination or penalty if certain requirements are
met.
   This bill would require the boards described above, with certain
exceptions, to waive the renewal fees, continuing education
requirements, and other renewal requirements as determined by the
board, if any are applicable, of any licensee or registrant who is
called to active duty as a member of the United States Armed Forces
or the California National Guard if certain requirements are met. The
bill would, except as specified, prohibit a licensee or registrant
from engaging in any activities requiring a license while a waiver is
in effect. The bill would require a licensee or registrant to meet
certain renewal requirements within a specified time period after
being discharged from active duty service prior to engaging in any
activity requiring a license. The bill would require a licensee or
registrant to notify the board of his or her discharge from active
duty within a specified time period.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 114.3 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   114.3.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every
board, as defined in Section 22, within the department shall waive
the renewal fees, continuing education requirements, and other
renewal requirements as determined by the board, if any are
applicable, for any licensee or registrant called to active duty as a
member of the United States Armed Forces or the California National
Guard if all of the following requirements are met:
   (1) The licensee or registrant possessed a current and valid
license with the board at the time he or she was called to active
duty.
   (2) The renewal requirements are waived only for the period during
which the licensee or registrant is on active duty service.
   (3) Written documentation that substantiates the licensee or
registrant's active duty service is provided to the board.
   (b) (1) Except as specified in paragraph (2), the licensee or
registrant shall not engage in any activities requiring a license
during the period that the waivers provided by this section are in
effect.
    (2) If the licensee or registrant will provide services for which
he or she is licensed while on active duty, the board shall convert
the license status to military active and no private practice of any
type shall be permitted.
   (c) In order to engage in any activities for which he or she is
licensed once discharged from active duty, the licensee or registrant
shall meet all necessary renewal requirements as determined by the
board within six months from the licensee's or registrant's date of
discharge from active duty service.
   (d) After a licensee or registrant receives notice of his or her
discharge date, the licensee or registrant shall notify the board of
his or her discharge from active duty within 60 days of receiving his
or her notice of discharge.
   (e) A board may adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of
this section.
   (f) This section shall not apply to any board that has a similar
license renewal waiver process statutorily authorized for that board.