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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                            Senator Kevin de Le�n, Chair


          SB 1245 (Lieu) - The Dental Hygiene Committee of California.
          
          Amended: As introduced.         Policy Vote: B&P 9-0
          Urgency: No                     Mandate: No
          Hearing Date: May 12, 2014      Consultant: Brendan McCarthy
          
          This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
          
          
          Bill Summary: SB 1245 would extend the statutory sunset of the  
          Dental Hygiene Committee until January 1, 2019.

          Fiscal Impact: 
              Ongoing costs of about $1.5 million per year to support the  
              Committee's licensing activities, supported by licensing  
              fees (State Dental Hygiene Fund).

          Background: Under current law, dental hygienists in the state  
          are licensed by the Dental Hygiene Committee of California.  
          Current law sunsets the statutory authority for the Committee on  
          January 1, 2015.

          Proposed Law: SB 1245 would extend the statutory sunset of the  
          Dental Hygiene Committee until January 1, 2019.

          Staff Comments: SB 1245 is one of several sunset review bills  
          authored by the Chair of the Senate Committee on Business,  
          Professions and Economic Development. That committee has a  
          policy of periodically reviewing the activities and performance  
          of the licensing boards and bureaus within the Department of  
          Consumer Affairs. As part of that review process, boards and  
          bureaus are reauthorized in statute and any statutory changes  
          the committee finds would improve their activities can be made  
          in those sunset review bills. This bill only extends the sunset  
          of the Dental Hygiene Committee; it does not make any policy  
          changes to the Committee's authorizing or governing statutes.