BILL NUMBER: SB 921	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 145 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 921, as introduced, Lieu. Professions and vocations: Department
of Consumer Affairs.
   Existing law establishes the Department of Consumer Affairs in the
State and Consumer Services Agency. Existing law provides that the
department is comprised of various state agencies that regulate
specified professions and vocations. Existing law sets forth the
Legislature's findings that unlicensed activity in the professions
and vocations regulated by the department is a threat to the health,
welfare, and safety of the people of the State of Califonia.
   This bill would, instead, set forth the Legislature's findings
that unlicensed activity in the professions and vocations regulated
by the department is a dire and immediate threat to the health,
welfare, and safety of the people of the State of Califonia.
   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 145 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   145.  The Legislature finds and declares that:
   (a) Unlicensed activity in the professions and vocations regulated
by the Department of Consumer Affairs is a  dire and immediate
 threat to the health, welfare, and safety of the people of the
State of California.
   (b) The law enforcement agencies of the state should have
sufficient, effective, and responsible means available to enforce the
licensing laws of the state.
   (c) The criminal sanction for unlicensed activity should be swift,
effective, appropriate, and create a strong incentive to obtain a
license.