AB 2330, as introduced, Ridley-Thomas. Real estate licensees.
The Real Estate Law provides for the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and real estate salespersons by the Bureau of Real Estate headed by the Real Estate Commissioner. Existing law requires the commissioner to provide on the Internet specific information regarding the status of every license issued by the department.
This bill would require that information to include whether a licensee is an associate licensee and, if the associate licensee is a broker, to identify each responsible broker with whom the licensee is contractually associated.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 10083.2 of the Business and Professions
2Code is amended to read:
(a) begin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insertThe commissioner shall provide on the
4Internet information regarding the status of every license issued
5by the department in accordance with the California Public Records
6Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7
P2 1of Title 1 of the Government Code) and the Information Practices
2Act of 1977 (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1798) of Title
31.8 of Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code).begin delete Theend delete
4begin insert(2)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertTheend insert public information to be provided on the Internet shall
5include information on suspensions and revocations of licenses
6issued by the department and accusations filed pursuant to the
7Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with
8Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government
9Code) relative to persons or businesses subject to licensure or
10regulation by the department.begin delete Theend delete
11begin insert(3)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertThe publicend insert information shall not include personal
12information, including home telephone number, date of birth, or
13social security number. The commissioner shall disclose a
14licensee’s address of record. However, the commissioner
shall
15allow a licensee to provide a post office box number or other
16alternate address, instead of his or her home address, as the address
17of record. This section shall not preclude the commissioner from
18also requiring a licensee who has provided a post office box
19number or other alternative mailing address as his or her address
20of record to provide a physical business address or residence
21address only for the department’s internal administrative use and
22not for disclosure as the licensee’s address of record or disclosure
23on the Internet.
24(4) The public information shall also include whether a licensee
25is an associate licensee within the meaning of subdivision (b) of
26Section 2079.13 of the Civil Code and, if the associate licensee is
27a broker, identify each responsible broker with whom the licensee
28is contractually associated as described in Section 10032 of this
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code or Section 2079.13 of the Civil Code.
30(b) For purposes of this section, “Internet” has the meaning set
31forth in paragraph (6) of subdivision (f) of Section 17538.
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