BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: July 3, 2013
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Mike Gatto, Chair
SB 822 (Committee on Business and Professions) - As Amended:
June 12, 2013
Policy Committee: Business and
Professions Vote: 12 - 0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
Yes Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY
This bill makes several non-controversial technical changes to
provisions within the Business and Professions Code (BPC)
related to the regulation of various professions, including
those overseen by the California Board of Accountancy (CBA), the
Contractors' State License Board (CSLB), the Board of Guide Dogs
for the Blind (BGDB), and the Board for Professional Engineers,
Land Surveyors and Geologists (BPELSG).
FISCAL EFFECT
1)This bill provides an exception to the current requirement
that a licensee renewing his or her contractor's license pay a
delinquency fee in the cases where an incomplete application
has been returned to the applicant by CSLB. Under this bill,
an applicant will not have to pay the delinquency fee if he or
she returns the application within 30 days and the applicant's
current license has not expired. CSLB estimates a potential
loss of revenue from delinquency fees in the range of $100,000
per year.
2)The remaining costs associated with this legislation are minor
and absorbable within the affected boards' budgets.
COMMENTS
Purpose . This bill is one of three committee bills authored by
the Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development
Committee and is intended to consolidate several
non-controversial provisions related to the programs and
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professions under the Business and Professions Code.
Consolidating the provisions in one bill is designed to relieve
licensing boards and professions from the necessity and burden
of having separate measures for a number of non-controversial
revisions. As a committee bill, the provisions are agreed upon
by all members of the committee and must be non-controversial in
nature and without opposition.
Analysis Prepared by : Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)
319-2081