BILL NUMBER: AB 1003	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Smyth

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act relating to professional and vocational licenses.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1003, as introduced, Smyth. Professional and vocational
licenses.
   Under existing law, boards within the Department of Consumer
Affairs are responsible for the licensure and regulation of various
professions and vocations. Existing law also provides for the
licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and
various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of
Public Health.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require that all professional and vocational
licenses currently issued by the Department of Consumer Affairs and
its affiliate boards, and specified licenses issued by the State
Department of Public Health, be issued from one central location and
that the current regulatory, oversight, and enforcement authority
with respect to holders of those licenses remain with those boards
and the department currently performing those functions.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require that all professional and vocational
licenses currently issued by the Department of Consumer Affairs and
its affiliate boards, bureaus, and commissions, and those licenses
issued by the State Department of Public Health pursuant to Chapter 3
(commencing with Section 1200) of Division 2 of the Business and
Professions Code be issued from one central location. It is also the
intent of the Legislature that the current regulatory, oversight, and
enforcement authority with respect to holders of those licenses
remain with those boards, bureaus, and commissions and the department
currently performing those functions.