BILL NUMBER: AB 177	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Business and Professions (Assembly
Members Bonilla (Chair), Bloom, Dodd, Gatto, Holden, Mullin, Ting,
and Wood)

                        JANUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Sections 6710 and 6714 of the Business and
Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 177, as introduced, Committee on Business and Professions.
Professions and vocations: engineers.
   The Professional Engineers Act provides for the licensure and
regulation of engineers by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land
surveyors, and Geologists, which consists of 15 members, in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. The act requires the board to appoint
an executive officer as specified. Under existing law, these
provisions are repealed on January 1, 2016.
   This bill would extend the operation of these provisions until
January 1, 2020.
   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 6710 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   6710.  (a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Board
for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, which
consists of 15 members.
   (b) Any reference in any law or regulation to the Board of
Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, or the
Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, is deemed to
refer to the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and
Geologists.
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
 2016,   2020,  and as of that date is
repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before
January 1,  2016,   2020,  deletes or
extends that date. Notwithstanding any other  provision of
 law, the repeal of this section renders the board subject
to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature.
  SEC. 2.  Section 6714 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   6714.  The board shall appoint an executive officer at a salary to
be fixed and determined by the board with the approval of the
Director of Finance.
   This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 
2016,   2020,  and as of that date is repealed,
unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1,
 2016,   2020,  deletes or extends that
date.