Sections
74 entriesSection 100Establishes the Department of Consumer Affairs within state government and places it in the Business and Consumer Services Agency. Sets amendments made…Section 101Defines the Department of Consumer Affairs as comprising the listed boards, bureaus, commissions, committees, divisions, and programs, plus any other boards, offices,…Section 101.6Establishes department boards, bureaus, and commissions to regulate businesses and professions affecting public health, safety, and welfare by setting minimum qualifications, licensing…Section 101.7Requires boards to meet at least twice each calendar year, including at least once in northern and once in southern California, but…Section 102Allows the Director of Consumer Affairs, at the request of an initiative-created professional or vocational board, to assume that board’s duties under…Section 102.3Allows the director to delegate by interagency agreement the duties and jurisdiction of a repealed board to an appropriate department entity, which…Section 103Sets compensation for authorized members of specified boards, commissions, and committees at $100 per day actually spent on official duties plus necessary…Section 104Allows department regulatory entities designated health-related by the department to require by regulation that licensees display credentials where they treat patients and…Section 105Requires members of boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs to take an oath of office in the manner provided by the…Section 105.5Extends a department board, commission, examining-committee, or similar agency member’s service after the appointed term expires until a successor is appointed and…Section 106Allows an appointing authority to remove a board member at any time for continued neglect of legal duties, incompetence, or unprofessional or…Section 106.5Allows the Governor to remove a department board or licensing-entity member who knows specific questions for the next licensing examination and directly…Section 107Allows each board to appoint an executive officer exempt from civil service, or a registrar when the board’s licensing act uses that…Section 107.5Requires any official seal used by a department board under the code to include “State of California,” “Department of Consumer Affairs,” and…Section 108Establishes each department board as a separate unit with statutory functions that may include setting standards and meeting dates, preparing and conducting…Section 108.5Allows witnesses appearing in a department board, commission, or officer investigation, proceeding, or hearing to receive $12 per day plus actual, necessary,…Section 109Limits director review by making board decisions on standards, examinations, candidates, and license revocation final within applicable code limits, subject to specified…Section 110Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to possess and control property, records, funds, offices, equipment, and other assets held for the department’s…Section 111Allows a board, with approval of the appointing power and unless otherwise expressly provided, to appoint qualified commissioners on examination to conduct…Section 112Exempts department agencies, other than the specified engineering and land-surveying board, from any requirement to compile, publish, sell, or distribute a directory.…Section 113Allows department and board officers, members, and employees, on the director’s recommendation, to confer with governmental officials and other helpful persons or…Section 114Allows a department licensee or registrant whose credential expired during active California National Guard or United States Armed Forces service to reinstate…Section 114.3Requires department boards to waive renewal fees, continuing education, and other board-determined renewal requirements for qualifying licensees or registrants called to active…Section 114.5Requires every licensing board to ask on each licensure application whether the applicant currently serves or previously served in the military. Requires…Section 115Extends the military-service license reinstatement provisions incorporated from the referenced section to a licensee or registrant whose license or registration was obtained…Section 115.4Requires department boards, beginning July 1, 2016, to expedite initial individual licensure for honorably discharged active-duty veterans and, beginning July 1, 2024,…Section 115.5Requires a department board to expedite licensure and waive both the application fee and initial or original license fee for an individual…Section 115.6Requires department boards, after investigation, to issue military-spouse temporary licenses within 30 days after receiving required documentation and satisfactory background results. Sets…Section 115.8Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to submit an annual legislative report on military and spouse licensure, broken out by board license…Section 115.9Requires the department and every department board to publish on its website homepage information about all licensing options available to military spouses.…Section 115.10Requires a registering authority to register a qualifying servicemember or spouse who relocated under military orders, holds comparable out-of-state licensure in good…Section 116Allows the director to audit and review specified complaint, investigation, informal-conference, and disciplinary matters involving the Medical Board, allied-health boards, and Podiatric…Section 118Establishes that withdrawing a license application without written board consent does not end the board’s authority to pursue or order denial, and…Section 119Prohibits possessing, displaying, lending, misrepresenting, unlawfully using, failing to surrender, reproducing, buying, or receiving specified invalid, fictitious, altered, forged, or counterfeit licenses…Section 120Allows a surviving spouse to possess or display a deceased spouse’s canceled certified public accountant or public accountant certificate despite the referenced…Section 121Exempts a licensee who timely complied with renewal requirements from being treated as practicing illegally while awaiting evidence of renewal when the…Section 121.5Exempts lawfully inactive or retired licenses and registrations from delinquency fees and accrued, unpaid renewal fees that otherwise apply when renewing expired…Section 122Allows the department and its boards, bureaus, committees, and commissions to charge a fee for processing and issuing a duplicate license or…Section 123Prohibits conduct that subverts or attempts to subvert a licensing examination, including security breaches, unauthorized copying or possession, trafficking in exam material,…Section 123.5Allows a superior court to enjoin or otherwise restrain actual or imminent conduct violating the licensing-examination security provision upon application by a…Section 124Allows any department board, when required to provide specified written administrative notices, orders, or documents, to serve them by regular mail to…Section 125Prohibits a person licensed under the specified divisions from conspiring with an unlicensed person to violate the code or intentionally aiding that…Section 125.3Allows an administrative law judge in department or osteopathic-board discipline, on request, to order a violating licensee to pay reasonable investigation and…Section 125.5Allows a superior court, on a department board’s director-approved petition, to enjoin actual or imminent code violations, order restitution for completed violations,…Section 125.6Prohibits a licensee from refusing, aiding refusal of, discriminating in, or restricting licensed services to an applicant because of characteristics incorporated from…Section 125.7Allows a superior court, on a healing-arts board’s supported petition, to restrain a licensee whose actual or imminent violation threatens public health,…Section 125.8Allows a superior court, on a covered non-healing-arts board’s supported petition, to restrain a licensee whose actual or imminent violation threatens public…Section 125.9Allows specified boards, bureaus, and commissions to create citation systems for licensing violations, including abatement orders and administrative fines up to $5,000…Section 126Exempts any department board, commission, examining committee, or similar agency that was required before the provision’s effective date to submit reports to…Section 127Allows the Director of Consumer Affairs to require any department board, commission, examining committee, or similar agency to submit reports on any…Section 128Prohibits knowingly selling equipment, supplies, or services for use in performing work or contracts that violate code licensing requirements and makes the…Section 128.5Requires specified Department of Consumer Affairs agencies to reduce license or other fees in the following fiscal year when year-end unencumbered funds…Section 129Requires each licensing board to notify a known complainant of initial administrative action within 10 days and of final action, refer complaints…Section 130Sets four-year terms ending June 1 for members of the listed boards and committees, notwithstanding other law. The term rule applies to…Section 131Limits members of the specified department agencies, boards, commissions, committees, and similar bodies to no more than two consecutive full terms. The…Section 132Prohibits a department board, commission, examining committee, or similar agency from bringing or joining litigation against a state or federal agency without…Section 134Requires initial license fees to be prorated on a yearly basis when an agency in the department issues a license during an…Section 135Prohibits department agencies from imposing extra restrictions, prerequisites, or requirements for later examinations solely because an applicant failed earlier attempts. Allows reexamination…Section 135.4Requires department boards to expedite initial licensure for an individual applicant who provides satisfactory evidence of qualifying refugee, asylum, or specified special-immigrant-visa…Section 135.5Prohibits department entities from denying licensure based on an applicant’s citizenship or immigration status, except as required by the referenced security-license provision.…Section 136Requires holders of department-issued professional or occupational credentials to notify the issuing board of a mailing-address change within 30 days, unless board…Section 137Allows a department agency to require by regulation that licensees include their license numbers in advertising, solicitations, or other public presentations. Bars…Section 138Requires every department board to begin the regulatory process by June 30, 1999, to require licensees to notify clients or customers that…Section 139Requires the department to develop and distribute an examination-development, validation, and occupational-analysis policy by September 30, 1999, after providing a draft to…Section 139.5Requires each department licensing board, beginning July 1, 2021, to prominently publish license-processing timeframes on its website at least quarterly. Allows either…Section 140Allows a board to discipline a licensee for failing to record and preserve employee-wage cash transactions for at least three years or…Section 141Allows a department licensing board to discipline a licensee based on discipline by another state, the federal government, or another country for…Section 142Allows covered bureaus, programs, and electing boards to synchronize renewal dates for multiple licenses, with fees prorated or adjusted so applicants pay…Section 143Bars a person from suing or recovering compensation in California courts for work requiring a department-regulated license unless the person alleges and…Section 143.5Prohibits Department of Consumer Affairs licensees and their agents from using civil-settlement terms that bar contacting, complaining to, or cooperating with the…Section 144Requires applicants to the listed boards and agencies to provide a full set of fingerprints for criminal-history checks and allows those agencies…Section 144.5Allows a board listed in the fingerprinting provision to request and receive from local or state agencies certified arrest and conviction records,…Section 144.6Sets the state minimum education hours for board-licensed programs, for specified federal purposes, at the program’s hours on this provision’s effective date.…Section 144.7Extends recognition, for any code or statute, of a national or regional accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education…