Bill Text: CA AB186 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Professions and vocations: military spouses: temporary licenses.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-3)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 640, Statutes of 2014. [AB186 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB186-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 186	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 1, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Maienschein
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Hagman)
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Dahle,   Donnelly,   Beth Gaines,  
Harkey,   Olsen,   and Patterson   ) 

    (   Coauthors:   Senators   Fuller
  and Huff   ) 

                        JANUARY 28, 2013

   An act to amend Section 115.5 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to professions and vocations, and making an
appropriation therefor.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 186, as amended, Maienschein. Professions and vocations:
military spouses: temporary licenses.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various
professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer
Affairs. Existing law provides for the issuance of reciprocal
licenses in certain fields where the applicant, among other
requirements, has a license to practice within that field in another
jurisdiction, as specified.  Under existing law, licensing
fees imposed by certain boards within the department are deposited in
funds that are continuously appropriated.  Existing law
requires a board within the department to expedite the licensure
process for an applicant who holds a current license in another
jurisdiction in the same profession or vocation and who supplies
satisfactory evidence of being married to, or in a domestic
partnership or other legal union with, an active duty member of the
Armed Forces of the United States who is assigned to a duty station
in California under official active duty military orders.
   This bill would authorize a board within the department to issue a
provisional license to an applicant who qualifies for an expedited
license pursuant to the above-described provision.  The bill
would prohibit a provisional license from being provided to any
applicant who has committed an act in any jurisdiction that would
have constituted grounds for denial, suspension, or revocation of the
license at the time the act was committed, or has been disciplined
by a licensing entity in another jurisdiction, or is the subject of
an unresolved complaint, review procedure, or disciplinary proceeding
conducted by a licensing entity in another jurisdiction. The bill
would require the board to approve a provisional license based on an
application that   includes an affidavit that the
information submitted in the application is accurate and that
verification documentation from the other jurisdiction has been
requested.  The bill would require the provisional license to
expire after 18 months  or at the issuance of the expedited
license  . 
   By creating provisional licenses for which a fee may be collected
and deposited into a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would
make an appropriation. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 115.5 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   115.5.  (a) A board within the department shall expedite the
licensure process for an applicant who meets both of the following
requirements:
   (1) Supplies evidence satisfactory to the board that the applicant
is married to, or in a domestic partnership or other legal union
with, an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States
who is assigned to a duty station in this state under official active
duty military orders.
   (2) Holds a current license in another state, district, or
territory of the United States in the profession or vocation for
which he or she seeks a license from the board.
   (b)  (1)   For each applicant who is eligible
for an expedited license pursuant to subdivision (a)  and meets
the requirements in paragraph (2)  , the board  may
  shall  provide a provisional license while the
board processes the application for licensure.  The board shall
approve a provision   al license based on an application
that includes an affidavit that the information submitted in the
application is accurate and that verification documentation from the
other jurisdiction has been requested.  The provisional license
shall expire 18 months after issuance  or upon issuance of the
expedited license  . 
   (2) (A) The applicant shall not have committed an act in any
jurisdiction that would have constituted grounds for denial,
suspension, or revocation of the license under this code at the time
the act was committed.  
   (B) The applicant shall not have been disciplined by a licensing
entity in another jurisdiction and shall not be the subject of an
unresolved complaint, review procedure, or disciplinary proceeding
conducted by a licensing entity in another jurisdiction. 
   (c) A board may adopt regulations necessary to administer this
section.