BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ó



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          Date of Hearing:   July 3, 2013

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

            SB 823 (Committee on Business and Professions) - As Amended:   
                                   June 13, 2013 

          Policy Committee:                             Business and  
          Professions  Vote:                            12 - 0 

          Urgency:     Yes                  State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill revises the qualifications for certified public  
          accountant licensure in order to smooth the transition to the  
          new requirements for some applicants, and reestablishes certain  
          provisions regarding the administration of the Transcript  
          Reimbursement Fund operated by the Court Reporters Board of  
          California (CRB).   

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          1)Costs associated with this legislation are minor and  
            absorbable within existing resources Department of Consumer  
            Affairs. 

          2)This bill would allow CRB to continue dispersing between  
            $100,000 and $300,000 in Transcript Reimbursement Funds that  
            would otherwise be held in the Transcript Reimbursement Fund  
            account.

           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  
          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.  Primarily, the provisions of this bill make minor,  








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          technical and updated changes, and also make corrections to  
          drafting errors in prior legislation.

          The urgency in this legislation is due to a drafting error in SB  
          1236 (Price) (Chapter 332, Statutes of 2012) which extended the  
          sunset date of the CRB and the fund from January 1, 2013 to  
          January 1, 2017.  However, the bill failed to extend certain  
          provisions related to the fund, so they were repealed as of  
          January 1, 2013.  The repealed sections contain definitions and  
          authorize the CRB to process and pay the reimbursements.  CRB is  
          continuing to receive and log applications for reimbursement,  
          and upon restoration of the repealed code sections the CRB would  
          be able to begin processing them.  This bill restores those  
          repealed sections and enables CRB to fully administer the fund.



           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081