BILL NUMBER: AB 1107	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Irwin

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 17550 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to sellers of travel.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1107, as introduced, Irwin. Sellers of travel: regulation.
    Existing law regulates sellers of travel, as defined, and
requires their registration with the Attorney General, and makes
legislative findings and declarations related to those regulations.
   This bill would correct an incorrect cross-reference and make
other technical, nonsubstantive changes to those legislative
findings.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 17550 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   17550.   (a)    The Legislature finds and
declares  that certain  all of the following:

    (b)     Certain  advertising, sales,
and business practices of sellers of travel have worked financial
hardship upon the people of this state  ; that the 
 . 
    (c)     The  travel business has a
significant impact upon the economy and well-being of this state and
its people  ; that problems   . 
    (d)     Problems  have arisen that are
peculiar to sellers of travel business  ; and that the
  . 
    (e)     The  public welfare requires
regulation of sellers of travel in order to eliminate unfair
advertising, sales, and business practices  ;  
,  to establish standards that will safeguard the people
against financial hardship  ;   ,  to
encourage competition, fair dealing, and prosperity in the travel
business  ;   ,  and to provide certain and
reliable funding for the seller of travel registration program and
enforcement by the office of the Attorney General of this article.

    It 
    (f)     It  is the intent of the
Legislature in enacting this article that the Department of Justice,
to the extent that resources are available, work together with
representatives of the affected business community to develop sample
forms that will, to the maximum extent possible, enable sellers of
travel to comply with the requirement to provide to persons making
payment the information required by  paragraph (1) of subdivision
(a),  subdivision (c)  and subdivisions (e) to (
  l   ), inclusive,  of Section
17550.13, in a manner that is simplified, efficient, and
nonduplicative, and in a manner that recognizes the particular
burdens and situations that may exist for small sellers of travel in
their efforts to comply with the provisions of that section.