SB 1348, as amended, Cannella. Licensure applications: military experience.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires each board to inquire in every application for licensure if the individual applying for licensure is serving in, or has previously served in, the military.
This bill would require each board, with a governing law authorizing veterans to apply military experience and training towards licensure requirements, tobegin delete modify their application for licensure to advise veteran applicantsend deletebegin insert post information on the board’s Internet Web siteend insert aboutbegin delete theirend deletebegin insert
theend insert abilitybegin insert of veteran applicantsend insert to applybegin delete thatend deletebegin insert their militaryend insert experience and training towards licensure requirements.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 114.5 of the Business and Professions
2Code is amended to read:
(a) Each board shall inquire in every application for
2licensure if the individual applying for licensure is serving in, or
3has previously served in, the military.
4(b) If a board’s governing law authorizes veterans to apply
5military experience and training towards licensure requirements,
6that board shallbegin delete modify their application for licensure to advise begin insert post information on the board’s Internet Web
7veteran applicantsend delete
8siteend insert aboutbegin delete theirend deletebegin insert
theend insert abilitybegin insert of veteran applicantsend insert to apply military
9experience and training towards licensure requirements.
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