BILL NUMBER: AB 1381 INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Weber FEBRUARY 27, 2015 An act to amend Section 11360 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1381, as introduced, Weber. Real estate appraisers. Existing law provides for the licensure, certification, and regulation of persons who engage in specified real estate appraisal activity by the Chief of the Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers. Existing law authorizes the chief to adopt regulations relating to the license renewal process that include continuing education requirements. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that latter provision. 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 11360 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 11360. (a) The director shall adopt regulations governing the process and procedures for renewal of a licensewhichthat shall include, but not be limited to, continuing education requirements, which shall be reported on the basis of four-year continuing education cycles. (b) An applicant for renewal of a license shall be required to demonstrate his or her continuing fitness to hold a license prior to its renewal. Applicants shall also fulfill continuing education requirements established pursuant to this section and shall be required to take a minimum of four hours of federal and California appraisal related statutory and regulatory law every four years. (c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2013.