Bill Text: CA AB2878 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2878 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Professions and vocations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-24 - Read first time. [AB2878 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB2878-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2878

Introduced by Assembly Member Flora

February 21, 2020

An act to amend Section 462 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2878, as introduced, Flora. Professions and vocations.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs and authorizes these boards to establish, by regulation, a system for an inactive category of licensure for persons who are not actively engaged in the practice of their profession or vocation, as specified.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that authorization.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 462 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

462.

(a) Any of the boards, bureaus, commissions, or programs within the department may establish, by regulation, a system for an inactive category of licensure for persons who are not actively engaged in the practice of their profession or vocation.

(b) The regulation shall contain all of the following provisions:

(1) The holder of an inactive license issued pursuant to this section shall not engage in any activity for which a license is required.

(2) An inactive license issued pursuant to this section shall be renewed during the same time period in which an active license is renewed. The holder of an inactive license need not comply with any continuing education requirement for renewal of an active license.

(3) The renewal fee for a license in an active status shall apply also for a renewal of a license in an inactive status, unless a lesser renewal fee is specified by the board.

(4) In order for the holder of an inactive license issued pursuant to this section to restore ~~his or her~~ the holder’s inactive license to an active status, the holder of an inactive license shall comply with all the following:

(A) Pay the renewal fee.

(B) If the board requires completion of continuing education for renewal of an active license, complete continuing education equivalent to that required for renewal of an active license, unless a different requirement is specified by the board.