BILL NUMBER: AB 2288	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blakeslee

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to amend Section 101.1 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2288, as introduced, Blakeslee. Professions and vocations:
boards: review.
   Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that all
existing and proposed consumer-related boards or categories of
licensed professionals be subject to a review every 4 years to
evaluate and determine whether each board has demonstrated a public
need for the continued existence of that board, as specified.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive, technical change to these
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 101.1 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   101.1.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all existing
and proposed consumer-related boards or categories of licensed
professionals be subject to a review every four years to evaluate and
determine whether each board has demonstrated a public need for the
continued existence of that board in accordance with enumerated
factors and standards as set forth in Division 1.2 (commencing with
Section 473).
   (b) (1) In the event that  any   a 
board, as defined in Section 477, becomes inoperative or is repealed
in accordance with the act that added this section, or by subsequent
acts, the Department of Consumer Affairs shall succeed to and is
vested with all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities and
jurisdiction not otherwise repealed or made inoperative of that board
and its executive officer.
   (2) Any provision of existing law that provides for the
appointment of board members and specifies the qualifications and
tenure of board members shall not be implemented and shall have no
force or effect while that board is inoperative or repealed. Every
reference to the inoperative or repealed board, as defined in Section
477, shall be deemed to be a reference to the department.
   (3) Notwithstanding Section 107, any provision of law authorizing
the appointment of an executive officer by a board subject to the
review described in Division 1.2 (commencing with Section 473), or
prescribing his or her duties, shall not be implemented and shall
have no force or effect while the applicable board is inoperative or
repealed. Any reference to the executive officer of an inoperative or
repealed board shall be deemed to be a reference to the director or
his or her designee.
   (c) It is the intent of the Legislature that subsequent
legislation to extend or repeal the inoperative date for any board
shall be a separate bill for that purpose.