BILL NUMBER: AB 1588	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Atkins
   (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Cook and Nielsen)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Block, Beth Gaines, Pan, V. Manuel
Pérez, Williams, and Yamada)

                        FEBRUARY 6, 2012

   An act to add Section 114.3 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1588, as introduced, Atkins. Professions and vocations:
reservist licensees: fees and continuing education.
   Existing law provides for the regulation of various professions
and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs and
for the licensure of individuals in that regard. Existing law
authorizes any licensee whose license expired while he or she was on
active duty as a member of the California National Guard or the
United States Armed Forces to reinstate his or her license without
examination or penalty if certain requirements are met.
   This bill would require the boards described above to waive the
renewal fees and continuing education requirements, if either is
applicable, of any licensee who is a reservist called to active duty
as a member of the United States Military Reserve or the California
National Guard if certain requirements are met.
   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 114.3 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   114.3.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every board
shall waive the renewal fees and continuing education requirements,
if either is applicable, for any licensee who is a reservist called
to active duty as a member of the United States Military Reserve or
the California National Guard if all of the following requirements
are met:
   (a) The licensee was in good standing with the board at the time
the reservist was called to active duty.
   (b) The renewal fees or continuing education requirements are
waived only for the period during which the reservist is on active
duty service.
   (c) The active duty reservist, or the active duty reservist's
spouse or registered domestic partner, provides written notice
satisfactory to the board that substantiates the reservist's active
duty service.