Bill Text: CA AB635 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Department of Consumer Affairs.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB635 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB635-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 635 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Harper |
February 14, 2017 |
An act to amend Section 101.6 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to consumer protection.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 635, as introduced, Harper.
Department of Consumer Affairs.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law provides that these boards are established to ensure that private businesses and professions are regulated to protect the people of this state.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 101.6 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:101.6.
The boards, bureaus, and commissions in the department are established for the purpose of ensuring that those private businesses and professions deemed to engage in activitiesTo this end, they establish minimum qualifications and levels of competency and license persons desiring to engage in the occupations they regulate upon determining that such persons possess the requisite skills and qualifications necessary to provide safe and
effective services to the public, or register or otherwise certify persons in order to identify practitioners and ensure performance according to set and accepted professional standards. They provide a means for redress of grievances by investigating allegations of unprofessional conduct, incompetence, fraudulent action, or unlawful activity brought to their attention by members of the public and institute disciplinary action against persons licensed or registered under the provisions of this code when such action is warranted. In addition, they conduct periodic checks of licensees, registrants, or otherwise certified persons in order to ensure compliance with the relevant sections of this code.
