Bill Text: CA AB2165 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Professions and vocations: licenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-22 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2165 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB2165-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2165 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 10, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Patterson
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
An act to add Section 101.8 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to licensing professions and
vocations .
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2165, as amended, Patterson. Professions and vocations:
licenses.
Under existing law, boards within the Department of Consumer
Affairs license and regulate persons practicing various healing arts,
professions, vocations, and businesses. Existing law requires these
boards to establish eligibility and application requirements,
including examinations, to license, certificate, or register each
applicant who successfully satisfies applicable requirements.
This bill would require each board , as defined, to
complete within 45 days the application review process with respect
to each person who has filed with the board an application for
issuance of a license, and to issue, within that
those 45 days, a license to an applicant who has
successfully satisfied all licensure requirements , as
specified . The bill would also requires
require each board to offer each examination the
board provides for the applicant's passage of which is
required for licensure, a minimum of 6 times per year
, unless the board uses a national examination. The bill
would also authorize a person who has satisfied the educational
requirements of the licensing act of which he or she seeks
licensure to immediately apply for and take the professional
examination required for licensure regardless of whether his or her
application for licensure is then pending with the board for which he
or she seeks licensure .
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 101.8 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
101.8. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, every board, as defined
in Section 22, within 45 days following the filing date of an
application with the board for issuance of a license, as defined in
Section 23.7, to engage in the business or profession regulated by
that board, the board shall do both of the following:
(1) Complete the application review process.
(2) If the applicant has satisfied all of the requirements for
licensure under the applicable licensing act, issue the applicant the
applicable license.
(b) For purposes of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), an applicant
has satisfied all of the requirements for licensure under the
applicable licensing act only if all of the documents required by the
licensing board for licensure have been submitted to the board,
regardless of whether those documents are to be submitted by the
applicant with his or her application or separately by any other
person or entity, such as for purposes of, among other things,
verification of completion of the applicant's coursework, training,
or clinical experience, if required under the applicable licensing
act.
(b)
(c) Every board that offers an examination that an
applicant is required to complete successfully for licensure, shall
offer that examination a minimum of six times per year , unless
the board uses a national examination .
(d) Notwithstanding any other law, a person who has satisfied the
educational requirements of the licensing act of which he or she
seeks licensure, such as graduation from a state-approved or
state-accredited school of which graduation is required by the
applicable licensing act, may immediately apply for and take the
professional examination required for licensure, regardless of
whether his or her application for licensure is then pending with the
board for which he or she seeks licensure.
