Bill Text: CA AB342 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Architects and real estate appraisers: applicants and licensees: demographic information.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-09-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 200, Statutes of 2023. [AB342 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB342-Amended.html
SECTION 1. Section 5552.2 is added to the Business and Professions Code , to read: 5552.2. SEC. 2. Section 11347 is added to the Business and Professions Code , to read: 11347.
Bill Title: Architects and real estate appraisers: applicants and licensees: demographic information.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-09-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 200, Statutes of 2023. [AB342 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB342-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 342
| Introduced by Assembly Member Valencia |
January 31, 2023 |
An act to add Sections 5552.2 and 11347 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 342, as amended, Valencia.
Architects and real estate appraisers: applicants and licensees: demographic information.
Existing law, the Architects Practice Act, establishes the California Architects Board in the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of persons engaged in the practice of architecture. Existing law, the Real Estate Appraisers’ Licensing and Certification Law, establishes the Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers to license and regulate real estate appraisers.
This bill would authorize the California Architects Board and the Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers to request that an applicant or a licensee identify their race and gender on a form prescribed by the board or bureau.
race, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity when an initial license is issued or at the time of license renewal. The bill would require the board and the bureau to maintain the confidentiality of the information and would prohibit the board and the bureau from requiring a licensee to provide the information as a condition of licensure or license renewal. The bill would authorize the board and the bureau to publish the aggregate demographic data they collect on their internet websites. The bill, beginning January 1, 2025, would require the board and the bureau to submit the aggregate demographic data they collect to the department and would require the department to post the information on the department’s internet website.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 5552.2 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:5552.2.
(a) The board may request that a licensee identify their race, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity. The data may be requested when an initial license is issued or at the time of license renewal.(b) The board shall maintain the confidentiality of the information it receives from a licensee under this section and shall only release the information in an aggregate form that cannot be used to identify an individual.
(c) A licensee shall not be required to provide the information specified in subdivision (a) as a condition of licensure or license renewal, and a licensee shall not be subject to discipline for not providing the information specified in subdivision (a).
(d) The board may publish the aggregate demographic data that it collects pursuant to this section on its internet website.
(e) Beginning January 1, 2025, the board shall submit the aggregate demographic data that it collects pursuant to this section to the department. The department shall post the information provided by the board on the department’s website.
SEC. 2.
Section 11347 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:11347.
(a) The board may request that a licensee identify their race, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity. The data may be requested when an initial license is issued or at the time of license renewal.(b) The board shall maintain the confidentiality of the information it receives from a licensee under this section and shall only release the information in an aggregate form that cannot be used to identify an individual.
(c) A licensee shall not be required to provide the information specified in subdivision (a) as a condition of licensure or license renewal, and a licensee shall not be subject to discipline for not providing the information specified in subdivision (a).
(d) The board may publish the aggregate demographic data that it collects pursuant to this section on its internet website.
(e) Beginning January 1, 2025, the board shall submit the aggregate demographic data that it collects pursuant to this section to the department. The department shall post the information provided by the board on the department’s website.
The board may request that an applicant or licensee identify their race and gender on a form prescribed by the board.
The bureau may request that an applicant or licensee identify their race and gender on a form prescribed by the bureau.
