California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2025

Introduced by Assembly Member Gonzalez

February 16, 2016

An act to amend Section 7347 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2025, as introduced, Gonzalez. Barbering and cosmetology.

The Barbering and Cosmetology Act establishes the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology and requires, among other duties, that the board issue licenses to qualified applicants, as specified, who submit an application, accompanied by a prescribed fee, to operate an establishment engaged in the practice of barbering, cosmetology, natural hairstyling for compensation, or electrolysis, as those terms are defined. The act authorizes the board to reduce the amount of the fee for an applicant obtaining ownership of an existing establishment. The act requires a separate license for each location where the establishment operates.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this 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 7347 of the Business and Professions
Code is amended to read:

7347.  

Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to operate an
establishment shall make an application to the begin delete bureau end delete begin insert board end insert for a
license accompanied by the fee prescribed by this chapter. The
application shall be required whether the person, firm, or
corporation is operating a new establishment or obtaining
ownership of an existing establishment. If the applicant is obtaining
ownership of an existing establishment, the begin delete bureau end delete begin insert board end insert may
establish the fee in an amount less than the fee prescribed by this
chapter. The applicant, if an individual, or each officer, director,
and partner, if the applicant is other than an individual, shall not
have committed acts or crimes begin delete which end delete begin insert that end insert are grounds for denial
of licensure in effect at the time the new application is submitted
pursuant to Section 480. A license issued pursuant to this section
shall authorize the operation of the establishment only at the
location for which the license is issued. Operation of the
establishment at any other location shall be unlawful unless a
license for the new location has been obtained upon compliance
with this section, applicable to the issuance of a license in the first
instance.