BILL NUMBER: AB 1588	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 25, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 5, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Atkins
   (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Cook and Nielsen)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members  Allen,   Bill
Berryhill,  Block,  Butler,  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 amended, Atkins. Professions and vocations: reservist
licensees: fees and continuing education.
   Existing law provides for the regulation of various professions
and vocations by boards  , commissions, or bureaus 
within the Department of Consumer Affairs and for the licensure or
registration 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  , commissions, or
bureaus  described above to waive the renewal fees 
and   ,  continuing education requirements,
 if either is applicable   and other renewal
requirements as determined by the board, if any are applicable 
, of any licensee or registrant 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.  The
bill would require a licensee or registrant to meet certain renewal
requirements within a specified time period after being discharged
from active duty service prior to engaging in any activity requiring
a license. 
   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.   (a)    Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, every board,  commission, or bureau
  as defined in Section 22,  within the department
shall waive the renewal fees  and   , 
continuing education requirements, if either is applicable
  and other renewal requirements as determined by the
board, if any are applicable  , for any licensee or registrant
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) 
    (1)  The licensee or registrant  was in good
standing   possessed a current and valid license 
with the board  , commission, or bureau  at the time
 the reservist   he or she  was called to
active duty. 
   (b) 
    (2)  The renewal  fees or continuing education
 requirements are waived only for the period during which
the  reservist   licensee or registrant  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, commission, or bureau that substantiates
the reservist's active duty service.  
   (3) Written documentation that substantiates the licensee or
registrant's active duty service is provided to the board.  

   (b) The licensee or registrant shall not engage in any activities
requiring a license during the period that the waivers provided by
this section are in effect. In order to engage in any activities for
which he or she is licensed, the licensee or registrant shall meet
all necessary renewal requirements as determined by the board within
one year from the reservist's date of discharge from active duty
service.  
   (c) A board may adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of
this section.