BILL NUMBER: SB 1444	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Anderson

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 2530.7 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to assistive devices.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1444, as introduced, Anderson. Assistive devices: warranty:
regulations.
   Existing law creates the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board in the Department of Consumer
Affairs with various powers and duties. Existing law requires all new
and used assistive devices sold at retail, with specified
exceptions, to be accompanied by a written warranty.
   This bill would authorize the board to adopt regulations to carry
out the purposes and objectives of these warranty requirements.
   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 2530.7 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   2530.7.  The board may adopt regulations to carry out the purposes
and objectives of subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 1793.02
of the Civil Code relating to warranty requirements for new and used
assistive devices governed by those provisions.