Amended in Senate July 9, 2015

Amended in Assembly June 1, 2015

Amended in Assembly March 26, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 507

Introduced by Assembly Member Olsen

(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Gray)

(Coauthors: Assembly Members begin delete Chang and Dodd) end delete begin insert Chang, Dodd, Obernolte, and Waldron) end insert

(Coauthor: Senator Bates)

February 23, 2015

An act to add Section 210.5 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to the Department of Consumer Affairs, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 507, as amended, Olsen. Department of Consumer Affairs: BreEZe system: annual report.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Consumer Affairs to enter into a contract with a vendor for the licensing and enforcement of the BreEZe system, which is a specified integrated, enterprisewide enforcement case management and licensing system, no sooner than 30 days after written notification to certain committees of the Legislature. Existing law requires the amount of contract funds for the system to be consistent with costs approved by the office of the State Chief Information Officer, based on information provided by the department in a specified manner.

This bill would, on begin delete and after October 1, 2015, end delete begin insert or before March 1, 2016, or thereafter when available, end insert require the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature and the Department of Finance that includes, among other things, the department’s plans for implementing the BreEZe system at specified regulatory entities included in the department's’s 3rd phase of the BreEZe implementation project, begin insert when available, end insert including, but not limited to, a timeline for the implementation. begin insert The bill would also require the department to post on its Internet Web site the name of each regulatory entity that is utilizing the BreEZe system once the regulatory entity begins using the BreEZe system. end insert

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Vote: ²⁄₃. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 210.5 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, immediately following Section 210, to read:

210.5.  

(a) On begin delete and after October 1, 2015, end delete begin insert or before March 1,
2016, or thereafter when available, end insert the department shall submit
an annual report to the Legislature and the Department of Finance
that includes begin delete all of end delete the following:

(1) The department’s plan for implementing the BreEZe system
at the regulatory entities in the department’s third phase of the
implementation project, including, but not limited to, a timeline
for implementation.

(2) The total estimated costs of implementation of the BreEZe
system at the regulatory entities in the department’s third phase
of the implementation project and the results of any begin insert related end insert
cost-benefit analysis the department begin delete conducted for the third phase
of the implementation project. end delete begin insert conducts. end insert

(3) A description of begin delete whether and to what extent the BreEZe
system will achieve end delete any operational efficiencies begin delete resulting from end delete
begin insert achieved as a result of BreEZe end insert implementation by the begin delete boards and end delete
regulatory entities within the department’s begin delete jurisdiction. end delete begin insert jurisdiction,
if available. end insert

(b) The report described in subdivision (a) shall be submitted
in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

begin insert

(c) The department shall post on its Internet Web site the name
of each regulatory entity that is utilizing the BreEZe system once
the regulatory entity begins using the BreEZe system.

end insert begin delete

(c)

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begin insert (d) end insert  For purposes of this section, “the regulatory entities in the
department’s third phase of the implementation project” includes
all of the following:

(1) Acupuncture Board.

(2) Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and
Geologists.

(3) Bureau of Automotive Repair.

(4) Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home
Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation.

(5) Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education.

(6) California Architects Board.

(7) California Board of Accountancy.

(8) California State Board of Pharmacy.

(9) Cemetery and Funeral Bureau.

(10) Contractors’ State License Board.

(11) Court Reporters Board of California.

(12) Landscape Architects Technical Committee.

(13) Professional Fiduciaries Bureau.

(14) Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing
Aid Dispensers Board.

(15) State Athletic Commission.

(16) State Board of Chiropractic Examiners.

(17) State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind.

(18) Structural Pest Control Board.

(19) Telephone Medical Advice Services Bureau.

SEC. 2.  

This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

Because of the circumstances surrounding the implementation
of the BreEZe system, and in order to ensure that healing arts and
other professionals are licensed in a timely and efficient manner,
it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.