BILL NUMBER: SB 270	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 4, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 30, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 22, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 14, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 23, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 5, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 14, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 6, 2015

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.  The department is under the
control of the Director of Consumer Affairs. 
   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 the  Attorney General, the
Director of Consumer Affairs, and the  Court Reporters Board
of California to seek injunctive relief or issue citations, fines,
and other penalties  in accordance with existing law 
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:

  SECTION 1.  Section 8041 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   8041.  (a) The  Attorney General, the Director of Consumer
Affairs, and the  board may seek injunctive relief or issue
citations, fines, and other penalties  in accordance with
existing law  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 the
following:
   (1) Chapter 9 of Title 4 of Part 4 (commencing with Section
2025.010) of the Code of Civil Procedure.
   (2) Part 4 of Division 3 of Title 1 (commencing with Section
13400) of the Corporations Code.
   (3) This chapter (commencing with Section 8000).
   (4) Section 2475 of Title 16 of the California Code of
Regulations, as that section read on January 1, 2016.
   (b) Nothing in this section shall be  construed to authorize
or prohibit an individual without a certification issued pursuant to
this chapter to practice shorthand reporting, as defined in Section
8017, or  construed to authorize  or prohibit  the
provision of shorthand reporting services by a foreign corporation in
violation of subdivision (c) of Section 13401 of the Corporations
 Code or   Code, or construed  to authorize
 or prohibit  violations of Section 8044.