AB 789, as introduced, Calderon. Contact lens sellers: fines.
The Nonresident Contact Lens Seller Registration Act prohibits a person located outside California from shipping, mailing, or delivering, in any manner, contact lenses at retail to a patient at a California address unless registered with the Division of Licensing of the Medical Board of California. A violation of the act results in a fine of not less than $1,000 or more than $2,500 for each violation.
This bill would raise the minimum fine from $1,000 to $1,500.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 2546.10 of the Business and Professions
2Code is amended to read:
(a) begin deleteAny end deletebegin insertA end insertperson who violates any of the provisions
4of this chapter shall be subject to a fine of not less than one
5thousandbegin insert five hundredend insert dollarsbegin delete ($1,000)end deletebegin insert ($1,500)end insert nor more than
6two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per violation. The fines
7collected pursuant to this section shall be available upon
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appropriation to the Medical Board of California for the purposes
2of administration and enforcement.
3(b) The Medical Board of California shall adopt regulations
4implementing this section and shall consider the following factors,
5including, but not limited to, applicable enforcement penalties,
6prior conduct, gravity of the offense, and the manner in which
7complaints will be processed.
8(c) The proceedings under this section shall be conducted in
9accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with
10Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government
11Code.
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