BILL NUMBER: AB 2025	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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  bureau
  board  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 
bureau   board  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
 which   that  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.