Bill Text: CA AB675 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Continuing education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB675 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB675-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 675	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman
   (Coauthor: Senator Huff)

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add Section 110.6 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 675, as introduced, Hagman. Continuing education.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of
professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer
Affairs and these boards may require licensees to satisfy continuing
education course requirements.
   This bill would provide, if applicable, that continuing education
courses, as specified, that advance or promote labor organizing on
behalf of a union, or that advance or promote statutory or regulatory
changes, political candidates, political advocacy, or political
strategy shall not be considered content relevant to the practice
regulated by the board and shall not be acceptable for meeting
requirements for licensure renewal. The bill would also prohibit, to
the extent applicable, an approved provider from representing that
such a continuing education course is acceptable for meeting
requirements for licensure renewal and would require a board, subject
to specified procedural requirements, to withdraw its approval of a
provider that violates that requirement for no less than 5 years, as
specified.
   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 110.6 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   110.6.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a board
described in Section 101 requires its licensees to satisfy continuing
education requirements by pursuing a course of continuing education,
the following shall apply:
   (a) Continuing education courses shall contain only content
relevant to the particular practice regulated by the board pursuant
to its laws and regulations. Continuing education courses that
advance or promote labor organizing on behalf of a union, or that
advance or promote statutory or regulatory changes, political
candidates, political advocacy, or political strategy shall not be
considered content relevant to the practice regulated by the board
and shall not be acceptable for meeting continuing education
requirements. For the purposes of this section, "courses" includes
institutes, seminars, lectures, conferences, workshops, and any other
public events.
   (b) (1) To the extent applicable, if an approved provider offers a
course described in subdivision (a), the provider shall not
represent that the course is acceptable for meeting the continuing
education requirements. If a provider violates this requirement, the
board shall withdraw its approval of the provider, subject to
paragraph (2).
   (2) If, after the board provides the provider notice and an
opportunity to be heard, the board finds that the provider violated
the requirement in paragraph (1), the board shall withdraw approval
of the provider for no less than five years.