BILL NUMBER: AB 1051	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Feuer

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act  to amend Section 16204 of the Business and Professions
Code,  relating to state government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1051, as amended, Feuer. State  government: economic
growth.   government.  
   Existing law provides for the enforcement and collection of
certain licensing fees, taxes, and charges levied by the state, and
defines various terms for these purposes. Existing law authorizes an
officer, as defined, to bring suit on behalf of the state against
certain taxpayers to collect certain licensing fees, taxes, and
charges owed to the state.  
   This bill would modify the definition of officer to include
secretary.  
   Existing law authorizes various entities to regulate business
within the state.  
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that promotes the growth of small businesses by ensuring
agencies design regulations that take care to avoid unduly burdensome
or duplicative constraints on small business growth while
maintaining consumer, worker, and environmental protections.

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


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 16204 of the  
Business and Professions Code  is amended to read: 
   16204.  "Officer" includes  secretary,  director, chief,
commissioner, chairman, department, division, bureau, commission,
board and any other person, officer or employee, and any agency, of
or in the Government of this  State   state
 . 
  SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares
all of the following:
   (a) California's approximately 3.6 million small businesses are
the backbone of California's $1.8 trillion economy.
   (b) The vast majority, or approximately 97 percent, of private
firm employers in California are small businesses.
   (c) The growth of small businesses is vital to California's
economic recovery.
   (d) Small businesses have different needs than large businesses,
but have less of an ability to impact the formulation of regulations
than large businesses.  
  SEC. 2.    It is the intent of the Legislature to
enact legislation that promotes the growth of small businesses by
ensuring agencies design regulations that take care to avoid unduly
burdensome or duplicative constraints on small business growth while
maintaining consumer, worker, and environmental protections.