BILL NUMBER: SB 417	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Berryhill

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to amend Section 148 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to consumer affairs.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 417, as introduced, Berryhill. Department of Consumer Affairs:
unlicensed activity enforcement.
   Existing law punishes specified unlicensed activity in the
professions and vocations regulated by the Department of Consumer
Affairs as an infraction and authorizes the establishment by boards
within the department of an administrative citation system for
unlicensed persons acting in the capacity of a licensee or
registrant.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this
provision.
   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 148 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   148.   Any   A  board, bureau, or
commission within the department may, in addition to the
administrative citation system authorized by Section 125.9, also
establish, by regulation, a similar system for the issuance of an
administrative citation to an unlicensed person who is acting in the
capacity of a licensee or registrant under the jurisdiction of that
board, bureau, or commission. The administrative citation system
authorized by this section shall meet the requirements of Section
125.9 and may not be applied to an unlicensed person who is otherwise
exempted from the provisions of the applicable licensing act. The
establishment of an administrative citation system for unlicensed
activity does not preclude the use of other enforcement statutes for
unlicensed activities at the discretion of the board, bureau, or
commission.