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                                                                  SB 933
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          Date of Hearing:   July 13, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                    SB 933 (Runner) - As Amended:  April 5, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                             Business and 
          Professions  Vote:                            9-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          As proposed to be amended, this bill makes several technical 
          changes related to the recent consolidation of licensure 
          programs for hearing aid dispensers and speech-language 
          pathologists and audiologists, including consolidating all 
          licensure revenue for these professions into one fund.  The 
          technical amendment simply conforms a related code section to 
          the new name of the consolidated fund (Speech-Language Pathology 
          and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Fund). 

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible state fiscal impact.  The board indicates that the 
          consolidation into one fund will help stabilize revenue and 
          streamline operations.  

           COMMENTS  

           Rationale  . According to the sponsor of this measure, the Speech 
          Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers 
          Board, this measure provides technical clean-up necessary to 
          consolidate the relevant practice acts and governance for speech 
          language pathologists and audiologists, and hearing aid 
          dispensers.  

           Related Legislation  . AB 1535 (Jones), Chapter 309, Statutes of 
          2009, created the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and 
          Hearing Aid Dispensers Board, and consolidated the functions of 
          the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board and the 
          Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau into this new board.









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           Analysis Prepared by  :    Lisa Murawski / APPR. / (916) 319-2081