Bill Text: CA SB270 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Shorthand reporting services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Assembly without further action. [SB270 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB270-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 270	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 19, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 4, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 30, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 22, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 14, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 23, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 5, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 14, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 6, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Mendoza

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2015

   An act to add Section 8041 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to court reporters.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 270, as amended, Mendoza. Shorthand reporting services.
   Existing law provides for the certification and regulation of
shorthand reporters and for the regulation of shorthand reporting
corporations by the Court Reporters Board of California within the
Department of Consumer Affairs.
   Under existing law, a shorthand reporting corporation is a
corporation authorized to render professional services, as defined,
as long as that corporation and all of its shareholders, officers,
directors, and employees rendering professional services who are
certified shorthand reporters are in compliance with specified
provisions of law. Existing law also provides for the formation or
registration of various legal entities transacting business in this
state.
   This bill would authorize the Court Reporters Board of California
to seek injunctive relief or issue citations, fines, and other
penalties in accordance with existing law against corporations,
persons, or entities, whether foreign or domestic, that for a fee or
other financial consideration, offer, offer to arrange for, render,
or provide the services of a certified shorthand reporter, for
violations of provisions governing oral depositions inside this state
imposed by the Civil Discovery Act, Moscone-Knox Professional
Corporation Act, and laws governing the practice of shorthand
reporting.  The bill also would describe activities that this
bill would not be construed to authorize, prohibit, or regulate, as
provided. 
   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 8041 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   8041.  (a) The board may seek injunctive relief or issue
citations, fines, and other penalties in accordance with existing law
against corporations, persons, or entities, whether foreign or
domestic, that for a fee or other financial consideration, offer,
offer to arrange for, render, or provide the services of a certified
shorthand reporter, for violations of the following:
   (1) Chapter 9  (commencing with Section 2025.010)  of
Title 4 of Part 4  (commencing with Section 2025.010)
 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
   (2) Part 4  (commencing with Section 13400)  of Division
3 of Title 1  (commencing with Section 13400)  of
the Corporations Code.
   (3) This chapter (commencing with Section 8000).
   (4) Section 2475 of Title 16 of the California Code of
Regulations, as that section read on January 1, 2016.
   (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize
 or prohibit  an individual without a certification
issued pursuant to this chapter to practice shorthand reporting, as
defined in Section  8017,   or 
 8017. 
    (c)     Nothing in this section shall be
 construed to authorize or prohibit the provision of shorthand
reporting services by a foreign corporation in violation of
subdivision (c) of Section 13401 of the Corporations  Code,
  Code  or construed to authorize or prohibit
violations of Section 8044. 
   (d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to regulate the
setting of negotiated transcript fees and reasonable fees for
noncontracting parties as long as the fees are otherwise in
compliance with applicable law. 
  
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