Bill Text: CA AB2500 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Professions and vocations: licenses: military service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 389, Statutes of 2010. [AB2500 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2500-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2500	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

    An act relating to military service.   An
act to add Section 36 to the Business and Professions Code, relating
to business and professions. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2500, as amended, Hagman.  Military service: benefits:
license renewal.   Business and professions: licenses:
penalty fees: military. 
    Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of
various businesses and professions by various state boards. 
Existing law  also  provides certain protections for members
of the National Guard ordered into active state service by the
Governor or active federal service by the President of the United
States for emergency purposes, and for reservists called to active
duty, as specified. 
   This bill would waive the penalty fee for late renewal of any type
of state license issued by a board, as defined, for a member of the
California National Guard or the United States Armed Forces, who was
on active duty, serving outside of this state in a military conflict
during a time of war at the time of the lapse of the license. This
bill would require a member to submit a copy of his or her official
military orders upon requesting the waiver of the penalty fee. 

   This bill would set forth the Legislature's intent to enact
legislation waiving the penalty fees for late renewal of any type of
state license for military service members who were deployed at the
time of the lapse. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 36 is added to the  
Business and Professions Code   , to read:  
   36.  (a) A penalty fee for late renewal of any type of state
license issued by a board shall be waived for a member of the
California National Guard or the United States Armed Forces who was
on active duty, serving outside of this state in a military conflict
during a time of war, as defined in Section 18 of the Military and
Veterans Code, at the time of the lapse of the license.
   (b) The member shall submit a copy of his or her official military
orders upon requesting the waiver of the penalty fee.
   (c) For purposes of this section, "board" means board as defined
in subdivision (a) of Section 31.  
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation waiving the penalty fees for late renewal of any
type of state license for military service members who were deployed
at the time of the lapse.