BILL NUMBER: AB 630	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Holden

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to add Section 5536.4 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to architects.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 630, as introduced, Holden. Architects.
   Existing law establishes the California Architects Board within
the Department of Consumer Affairs for the purpose of regulating the
practice of architecture in this state. Existing law defines what
constitutes an architect's professional services.
   This bill would provide that no person may use an architect's
instruments of service, as specified, without a written contract or
written assignment allowed by a written contract authorizing that
use.
   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 5536.4 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   5536.4.  No person may use an architect's instruments of service,
as those professional services are described in subdivision (b) of
Section 5500.1, without a written contract or written assignment
specifically allowed by a written contract authorizing that use.