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Senate BillNo. 270


Introduced by Senator Mendoza

February 19, 2015


An act to add Section 8041 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to court reporters.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 270, as amended, Mendoza. Shorthand reporting services.

Existing law provides for the certification and regulation of shorthand reporters and for the regulation of shorthand reporting corporations by the Court Reporters Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs.begin delete The department is under the control of the Director of Consumer Affairs.end delete

Under existing law, a shorthand reporting corporation is a corporation authorized to render professional services, as defined, as long as that corporation and all of its shareholders, officers, directors, and employees rendering professional services who are certified shorthand reporters are in compliance with specified provisions of law. Existing law also provides for the formation or registration of various legal entities transacting business in this state.

This bill would authorize thebegin delete Attorney General, the Director of Consumer Affairs, and theend delete Court Reporters Board of California to seek injunctive relief or issue citations, fines, and other penaltiesbegin insert in accordance with existing lawend insert against corporations, persons, or entities, whether foreign or domestic, that for a fee or other financial consideration, offer, offer to arrange for, render, or provide the services of a certified shorthand reporter, for violations of provisions governing oral depositions inside this state imposed by the Civil Discovery Act, Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act, and laws governing the practice of shorthand reporting.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1.  

Section 8041 is added to the Business and
2Professions Code
, to read:

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8041.  

(a) Thebegin delete Attorney General, the Director of Consumer
4Affairs, and theend delete
board may seek injunctive relief or issue citations,
5fines, and other penaltiesbegin insert in accordance with existing lawend insert against
6corporations, persons, or entities, whether foreign or domestic,
7that for a fee or other financial consideration, offer, offer to arrange
8for, render, or provide the services of a certified shorthand reporter,
9for violations of the following:

10(1) Chapter 9 of Title 4 of Part 4 (commencing with Section
112025.010) of the Code of Civil Procedure.

12(2) Part 4 of Division 3 of Title 1 (commencing with Section
1313400) of the Corporations Code.

14(3) This chapter (commencing with Section 8000).

15(4) Section 2475 of Title 16 of the California Code of
16Regulations, as that section read on January 1, 2016.

17(b) Nothing in this section shall bebegin insert construed to authorize or
18prohibit an individual without a certification issued pursuant to
19this chapter to practice shorthand reporting, as defined in Section
208017, orend insert
construed to authorizebegin insert or prohibitend insert the provision of
21shorthand reporting services by a foreign corporation in violation
22of subdivision (c) of Section 13401 of the Corporationsbegin delete Code orend delete
P3    1begin insert Code, or construedend insert to authorizebegin insert or prohibitend insert violations of Section
28044.



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