BILL NUMBER: AB 1284	CHAPTERED  09/28/08

	CHAPTER  488
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 20, 2008
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 28, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 17, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 7, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Eng

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2007

   An act to amend Sections 7847 and 7887 of the Business and
Professions Code, relating to geologists and geophysicists.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1284, Eng. Geologists and geophysicists.
   Existing law, the Geologist and Geophysicist Act, provides for the
registration and regulation of geologists and geophysicists by the
Board for Geologists and Geophysicists. Existing law authorizes the
board to issue a certificate of registration as a geologist or
geophysicist, without written examination, to any person holding an
equivalent certificate of registration as a geologist or
geophysicist, issued by any state or country when the applicant's
qualifications meet other specified requirements. Existing law
requires each applicant for registration to pay an examination fee
fixed by the board at an amount, up to $300, equal to the actual cost
to the board for the purchase of a national examination for
geologists, including a supplemental California specific examination.

   This bill would delete the exemption from the written examination
for any person with an equivalent certificate of registration. The
bill would also require each applicant for registration to pay an
examination fee fixed by the board at an amount, up to $450, equal to
the actual cost to the board to administer the written examination.



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

  SECTION 1.  Section 7847 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   7847.  The board, upon application therefor, on its prescribed
form, and upon the payment of the application and registration fees
fixed by this chapter, which fees shall be retained by the board, may
issue a certificate of registration as a geologist or as a
geophysicist to a person holding an equivalent certificate of
registration as a geologist or as a geophysicist, issued to him by
any state or country when the applicant's qualifications meet the
other requirements of this chapter and the rules established by the
board.
  SEC. 2.  Section 7887 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   7887.  The amount of the fees prescribed by this chapter shall be
fixed by the board in accordance with the following schedule:
   (a) The fee for filing each application for registration as a
geologist or a geophysicist or certification as a specialty geologist
or a specialty geophysicist and for administration of the
examination at not more than two hundred and fifty dollars ($250).
   (b) The registration fee for a geologist or for a geophysicist and
the fee for the certification in a specialty shall be fixed at an
amount equal to the renewal fee in effect on the last regular renewal
date before the date on which the certificate is issued, except
that, with respect to certificates that will expire less than one
year after issuance, the fee shall be fixed at an amount equal to 50
percent of the renewal fee in effect on the last regular renewal date
before the date on which the certificate is issued. The board may,
by appropriate regulation, provide for the waiver or refund of the
initial certificate fee where the certificate is issued less than 45
days before the date on which it will expire.
   (c) The duplicate certificate fee at not more than six dollars
($6).
   (d) The temporary registration fee for a geologist or for a
geophysicist at not more than eighty dollars ($80).
   (e) The renewal fee for a geologist or for a geophysicist shall be
fixed by the board at not more than four hundred dollars ($400).
   (f) The renewal fee for a specialty geologist or for a specialty
geophysicist at not more than one hundred dollars ($100).
   (g) Notwithstanding Section 163.5, the delinquency fee for a
certificate is an amount equal to 50 percent of the renewal fee in
effect on the last regular renewal date.
   (h) Each applicant for registration as a geologist shall pay an
examination fee fixed by the board at an amount equal to the actual
cost to the board to administer the examination described in
subdivision (d) of Section 7841 that shall not exceed four hundred
fifty dollars ($450).
   (i) Each applicant for registration as a geophysicist or
certification as an engineering geologist or certification as a
hydrogeologist shall pay an examination fee fixed by the board at an
amount equal to the actual cost to the board for the development and
maintenance of the written examination, and shall not exceed one
hundred dollars ($100).