BILL NUMBER: SB 1348	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 31, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cannella

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 114.5 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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, to  modify their application
for licensure to advise veteran applicants   post
information on the board's Internet Web site  about 
their  the  ability  of veteran applicants
 to apply  that   their military 
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 1.  Section 114.5 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   114.5.  (a) Each board shall inquire in every application for
licensure if the individual applying for licensure is serving in, or
has previously served in, the military.
   (b) If a board's governing law authorizes veterans to apply
military experience and training towards licensure requirements, that
board shall  modify their application for licensure to
advise veteran applicants   post information on the
board's Internet Web site  about  their  
the  ability  of veteran applicants  to apply military
experience and training towards licensure requirements.