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          Date of Hearing:   April 21, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                 AB 2130 (Huber) - As Introduced:  February 18, 2010 

          Policy Committee:                              B, P, and  
          C.P.Vote:    11 - 0 

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill makes specified boards subject to review by a new  
          Joint Sunset Review Committee (JSRC), proposed by a companion  
          measure, AB 1659 (Huber).  Specifically, this bill: 

          1)Eliminates the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and  
            Consumer Protection (Joint Committee) and replaces it with the  
            JSRC.

          2)Requires boards and bureaus within the Department of Consumer  
            Affairs (DCA) that already contain a sunset date to be  
            reviewed by the JSRC, rather than the Joint Committee.

          3)Will not become operative unless AB 1659 (Huber), is also  
            enacted.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          If nine boards and bureaus are scheduled to sunset each year,  
          workload associated with DCA writing and submitting a sunset  
          review report to the JSRC would be in the range of $900,000 per  
          year. [Various Special Funds]

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  . AB 2130 is a companion piece to AB 1659.  In AB  
            1659 the author establishes a Joint Sunset Review Committee  
            within the Legislature and creates a framework for that  
            committee to review virtually all departments and offices  
            within state government.  That bill envisions future  
            legislation that will create a sunset date for all of those  








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            departments. In the interim, this bill begins the process by  
            recasting the sunset provisions governing the boards and  
            bureaus within DCA and requiring that those entities be  
            reviewed by the JSRC.

           2)The Joint Committee on Boards and Commissions  . Under current  
            law the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer  
            Protection is granted the power to hold public hearings at  
            specified times and to evaluate whether a board or regulatory  
            program under the Department of Consumer Affairs has  
            demonstrated a need for its continued existence. Committee  
            members have not been appointed to this committee since 2006  
            and the jurisdiction is limited to the boards and commissions  
            that fall under the Business and Professions code. The author  
            envisions the new, expanded JSRC as a replacement for that  
            currently inactive committee.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081