Bill Text: CA SB601 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: State agencies: licenses: fee waiver.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-12 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 854, Statutes of 2019. [SB601 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB601-Amended.html
Bill Title: State agencies: licenses: fee waiver.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-12 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 854, Statutes of 2019. [SB601 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB601-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
| Senate Bill | No. 601 |
| Introduced by Senator Morrell (Coauthors: Senators Bates, Borgeas, Dahle, and Nielsen) |
February 22, 2019 |
An act to add Section 11009.5 to the Government Code, relating to state government.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 601, as amended, Morrell.
State agencies: licenses: fee waiver.
Existing law requires various licenses to be obtained by a person before engaging in certain professions or vocations or business activities, including licensure as a healing arts professional by various boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs.
This bill would authorize any state agency that issues any business license to reduce or waive any required fees for licensure, renewal of licensure, or the replacement of a physical license for display if a person or business establishes to the satisfaction of the state agency that the person or business has been displaced or affected by a declared federal emergency or proclaimed state emergency, as defined. establish a process
for a person or business that has been displaced or is experiencing economic hardship as a result of an emergency, as defined, to submit an application for reduction or waiver of fees required by the agency to obtain a license, renew or activate a license, or replace a physical license for display.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 11009.5 is added to the Government Code, to read:11009.5.
(a) For purposes of this section:(1) “Displaced” means a condition in which the person or business is unable to return to the address of record or other address associated with the license before experiencing economic hardship.
(2) “Economic hardship” means the inability to pay living or business expenses, unless otherwise defined by a state agency pursuant to subdivision (c).
(3) “Emergency” means an emergency as defined in Section 8558 or a declared federal emergency.
(4) “License” includes, but is not limited to, a certificate,
registration, or other required document to engage in business.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, a state agency that issues any business license may, within one year of the proclamation of an emergency as defined in Section 8558 or a declared federal emergency, reduce or waive any required fees for licensure, renewal of licensure, or the replacement of a physical license for display if a person or business establishes to the satisfaction of the state agency that the person or business has been displaced or affected by the proclaimed or declared emergency.
may establish a process for a person or business that has been displaced or is experiencing economic hardship as a result of an emergency to submit an application, that the agency may grant, for a reduction or waiver of any fees required by the agency to obtain a license, renew or activate a license, or replace a physical license for display.
(c) A fee or waiver process established pursuant to subdivision (b) shall specify, at a minimum, all of the following:
(1) The methodology used by the agency for determining whether a person, as a result of an emergency, has been displaced or is experiencing economic hardship.
(2) The procedure for applying for a reduction or fee waiver.
(3) That the application shall be made within one year of the date on which the emergency was proclaimed or declared.
(b)For purposes of this section, “license” includes, but is not limited to, a certificate, registration, or other required document to engage in business.
