BILL NUMBER: AB 2783	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Veterans Affairs (Salas (Chair),
Gilmore, Lieu, V. Manuel Perez, and Yamada)

                        MARCH 8, 2010

   An act to amend Section 35 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2783, as introduced, Committee on Veterans Affairs. Professions
and vocations: military personnel.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of certain
businesses, occupations, and professions by specified boards within
the Department of Consumer Affairs created under the Business and
Professions Code. Existing law requires these boards to adopt rules
and regulations to provide for methods of evaluating education,
training, and experience obtained in the armed services, if
applicable to the requirements of the business, occupation, or
profession regulated, and to specify how this education, training,
and experience may be used to meet the licensure requirements for the
particular business, occupation, or profession regulated. Existing
law also requires these boards to consult with the Department of
Veterans Affairs before adopting these rules and regulations.
   This bill would, in addition, require these boards to consult with
the Military Department before adopting these rules and regulations.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 35 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   35.  It is the policy of this state that, consistent with the
provision of high-quality services, persons with skills, knowledge,
and experience obtained in the armed services of the United States
should be permitted to apply this learning and contribute to the
employment needs of the state at the maximum level of responsibility
and skill for which they are qualified. To this end, rules and
regulations of boards provided for in this code shall provide for
methods of evaluating education, training, and experience obtained in
the armed services, if applicable to the requirements of the
business, occupation, or profession regulated. These rules and
regulations shall also specify how this education, training, and
experience may be used to meet the licensure requirements for the
particular business, occupation, or profession regulated. Each board
shall consult with the Department of Veterans Affairs  and the
Military Department  before adopting these rules and
regulations. Each board shall perform the duties required by this
section within existing budgetary resources of the agency within
which the board operates.