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          Date of Hearing:   April 5, 2011

              ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND CONSUMER 
                                     PROTECTION
                                 Mary Hayashi, Chair
                  AB 214 (Davis) - As Introduced:  January 31, 2011
           
          SUBJECT  :   Professional photocopiers.

           SUMMARY  :   Requires identification cards for employees of a 
          professional photocopier or a partnership or corporation, to 
          include a photograph of the employee, as specified.

           EXISTING LAW  requires county clerks to maintain a register of 
          professional photocopiers and assign an identification card to 
          each one.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   Unknown

           COMMENTS  :   According to the author's office, "The author, and 
          sponsor, the California Association of Clerks and Election 
          Officials (CACEO) is attempting to clarify legislative intent 
          with regard to AB 620 (J. Perez), Chapter 458, Statutes of 2009, 
          and the issuance of professional photocopier identification 
          cards to employees of corporations.  AB 620 establishes new 
          minimum size requirements and other changes to identification 
          cards for a specified class of registered professions.  Among 
          its clean-up provisions, the bill removed the required 
          photograph from a card issued to a corporation, but is silent on 
          whether to include a photograph on an employee identification 
          card.

          "After discovering that several counties were interpreting the 
          silence in the code as a directive to issue cards without 
          photographs, �CACEO] has opted to introduce language to clarify 
          the photograph requirement on employee cards an create a single, 
          uniform policy statewide for applicants."

           Support  .  CACEO writes in support, "After �AB 620] became law on 
          January 1, 2010, the new process for issuing professional 
          photocopier identification cards to employees of corporations 
          revealed an unclear portion of AB 620.  The language clearly 
          stated the parameters for corporation cards (no photo) and for 
          'individual' cards (photo to be contained in the bottom left 
          corner) but did not clearly direct the clerk how to configure 








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          the card for employees of corporations.  The Author's office was 
          contacted by numerous companies who employ professional 
          photocopiers communicating complaints that those counties who 
          were issuing cards without photos were causing problems for 
          employees of photocopier services who were unable to verify 
          their identity.

          "AB 214 will insert language in the Business and Professions 
          Code to direct counties to include a photograph on the 
          professional photocopier identification card for employees of 
          corporations.  This will ensure that the policy and procedure 
          will be uniform across the State."

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          California Association of Clerks and Election Officials 
          (sponsor)

          Opposition 
           
          None on file.
           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Rebecca May / B.,P. & C.P. / (916) 
          319-3301