Bill Text: CA SB546 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Immigration consultants.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB546 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB546-Amended.html
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Amended
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Senate
September 06, 2019 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 546
| Introduced by Senator Hueso |
February 22, 2019 |
An act to amend Section 145 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 546, as amended, Hueso.
Unlicensed activity. Immigration consultants.
Existing law establishes the Department of Consumer Affairs and requires boards within the department to license and regulate various professions and vocations. Under existing law, the Legislature finds and declares that unlicensed activity in the professions and vocations regulated by the department is a threat to the health, welfare, and safety of the people of the State of California. regulates the practice of immigration consultants who provide nonlegal assistance or advice in an immigration matter.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to further regulate immigration consultants.
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.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to further regulate immigration consultants.The Legislature finds and declares that:
(a)Unlicensed activity in the professions and vocations regulated by the Department of Consumer Affairs is a threat to the health, welfare, and safety of the people of this state.
(b)The law enforcement agencies of the state should have sufficient, effective, and responsible means available to enforce the licensing laws of the state.
(c)The criminal sanction for unlicensed activity should be swift, effective, appropriate, and create a strong incentive to obtain a license.
