BILL NUMBER: AB 771	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 103 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to consumer affairs.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 771, as introduced, Jones. Department of Consumer Affairs.
   Existing law establishes the Department of Consumer Affairs, which
is comprised of various boards, commissions, and committees. Under
existing law, members of specified boards, commissions, and
committees who are not public officers or employees are authorized to
receive per diem of $100 for each day actually spent in the
discharge of official duties and traveling and other expenses
necessarily incurred in the performance of official duties.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   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 103 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   103.   (a)    Each member of a board,
commission, or committee created in the various chapters of Division
2 (commencing with Section 500) and Division 3 (commencing with
Section 5000), and in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 18600) and
Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 19000) of Division 8, shall
receive the moneys specified in this section when authorized by the
respective provisions. 
   Each such 
    (b)     Each  member shall receive a
per diem of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day actually spent in
the discharge of official duties, and shall be reimbursed for
traveling and other expenses necessarily incurred in the performance
of official duties. 
   The 
    (c)     The  payments in each instance
shall be made only from the fund from which the expenses of the
agency are paid and shall be subject to the availability of money.

   Notwithstanding 
    (d)     Notwithstanding  any other
provision of law, no public officer or employee shall receive per
diem salary compensation for serving on those boards, commissions,
committees, or the Consumer Advisory Council on any day when the
officer or employee also received compensation for his or her regular
public employment.