BILL NUMBER: AB 1859	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gallagher

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2016

   An act to amend Section 7506.5 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to collateral recovery.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1859, as introduced, Gallagher. Collateral recovery.
   The Collateral Recovery Act provides for the licensure and
regulation of repossession agencies by the Bureau of Security and
Investigative Services under the supervision and control of the
Director of Consumer Affairs. The act requires every person entering
the employ of, or contracting with, a licensee or multiple licensee
to immediately complete an application for an initial registration or
a reregistration and file the appropriate application with the chief
of the bureau, as specified. The act further requires that
application to be verified and include certain information, and
provides that all information obtained on the application is
confidential, as specified.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that
confidentiality 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 7506.5 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   7506.5.  All information obtained on the application shall be
confidential pursuant to the Information Practices Act  of 1977
 (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1798) of Title 1.8 of Part
4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code) and shall not be released to the
public except for the registrant's full name, the licensee's name and
address, and the registration number. The application shall be
verified and shall include:
   (a) The full name, residence address, residence telephone number,
date and place of birth, and driver's license number of the applicant
or registrant.
   (b) A statement listing any and all names used by the applicant or
registrant, other than the name by which he or she is currently
known. If the applicant or registrant has never used a name other
than his or her true name, this fact shall be set forth in the
statement.
   (c) The name and address of the licensee and the date the
employment or contract commenced.
   (d) The title of the position occupied by the applicant or
registrant and a description of his or her duties.
   (e) Two recent photographs of the applicant or registrant, of a
type prescribed by the chief, and two classifiable sets of his or her
fingerprints, one set of which shall be forwarded to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation for purposes of a background check.
   (f) The bureau may impose a fee not to exceed three dollars ($3)
for processing classifiable fingerprint cards submitted by
applicants, excluding those submitted into an electronic fingerprint
system using electronic fingerprint technology.