BILL NUMBER: AB 1057	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Medina

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 114.5 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1057, as introduced, Medina. Professions and vocations:
licenses: military service.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various
professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer
Affairs. Existing law authorizes a licensee or registrant whose
license expired while the licensee or registrant was on active duty
as a member of the California National Guard or the United States
Armed Forces to, upon application, reinstate his or her license
without penalty and without examination, if certain requirements are
satisfied, unless the licensing agency determines that the applicant
has not actively engaged in the practice of his or her profession
while on active duty, as specified.
   This bill would require each board to inquire in every application
for licensure if the applicant is serving in, or has previously
served in, the military.
   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 114.5 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   114.5.  Each board shall inquire in every application for
licensure if the applicant is serving in, or has previously served
in, the military.