BILL NUMBER: SB 1043	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Calderon

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2010

   An act to add Chapter 2.7 (commencing with Section 18900) to
Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to personal
trainers.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1043, as introduced, Calderon. Personal trainers.
   Existing law imposes requirements for a person to hold himself or
herself out as a member of a particular vocation or profession, but
does not impose such requirements with respect to personal trainers.
   This bill would provide that a person may not hold himself or
herself out as a personal trainer without having either a college
degree or certification from a national independent certifying body.

   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.  Chapter 2.7 (commencing with Section 18900) is added to
Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 2.7.  PERSONAL TRAINERS


   18900.  It shall be unlawful for any person to hold himself or
herself out as a "personal trainer" without having either a college
degree or certification from a national independent certifying body.