BILL NUMBER: AB 827	CHAPTERED  09/29/03

	CHAPTER  563
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 29, 2003
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 28, 2003
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 8, 2003
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 4, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 23, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 9, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Business and Professions (Correa
(Chair), Bermudez, Koretz, Nation, Vargas, and Yee)

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2003

   An act to amend Section 450.5 of, and to repeal Section 450.4 of,
the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and
vocations.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 827, Committee on Business and Professions.  Board membership
qualifications:  public members.
   Existing law establishes various boards within the Department of
Consumer Affairs to regulate and license various professions and
vocations.  Under existing law, a person is required to meet specific
qualifications for appointment as a public member, including having
expertise in the activity regulated by the board.  Existing law also
prohibits a public member from engaging in, or having engaged in
within 5 years prior to his or her appointment, pursuits regulated by
the board.
   This bill would delete this expertise qualification for
appointment as a public member.  The bill would also prohibit a
public member from providing, either presently or in the 5 years
prior to his or her appointment, representation to the industry or
profession regulated by the board.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 450.4 of the Business and Professions Code is
repealed.
  SEC. 2.  Section 450.5 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   450.5.  A public member, or a lay member, at any time within five
years immediately preceding his or her appointment, shall not have
been engaged in pursuits which lie within the field of the industry
or profession, or have provided representation to the industry or
profession, regulated by the board of which he or she is a member,
nor shall he or she engage in those pursuits or provide that
representation during his or her term of office.