BILL NUMBER: SB 1444	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 11, 2012

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 amended, 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   that define the express terms that must
be provided in a purchase agreement for a hearing aid,
notwithstanding the existing provisions otherwise applicable to a
warranty for a hearing aid  .
   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   Notwithstanding Section
1793.02 of the Civil Code, 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   that define the express terms that
must be provided in a purchase agreement for a hearing aid  .