Sections
29 entriesSection 150Establishes that the Department of Consumer Affairs is controlled by a civil executive officer titled the Director of Consumer Affairs. The provision…Section 151Establishes that the Governor appoints the Director of Consumer Affairs and that the director serves at the Governor’s pleasure. Requires the director…Section 152Allows the Director of Consumer Affairs, with the Governor’s approval, to organize the department’s reregistration and clerical work in the manner the…Section 152.5Allows department boards, with the director’s approval, to extend a statutory license, certificate, or permit renewal date by no more than six…Section 152.6Requires each department board, with the director, to establish license periods and renewal dates that distribute renewal work efficiently throughout the year.…Section 153Allows the Director of Consumer Affairs to investigate the work of department boards and obtain copies of their records and full official…Section 153.5Allows the Director of Consumer Affairs to appoint an interim executive officer when a newly authorized board replaces an existing or former…Section 154Requires each department board, agency, or commission to initiate personnel employment, tenure, and discipline matters, obtain appointing-power approval before State Personnel Board…Section 154.1Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to continue developing and offering enforcement training for employees performing enforcement functions, aimed at building knowledge…Section 154.2Allows healing-arts boards to employ individuals who are not peace officers to perform investigative services. Also allows those boards to employ individuals…Section 154.3Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to submit fingerprint images and related information requested by the Department of Justice for employees, prospective…Section 154.5Requires a board to provide legal representation to a nonemployee expert it hired or contracted with when the expert is sued civilly…Section 155Allows the director to employ investigators, inspectors, and deputies needed to investigate and prosecute laws enforced by the department or its entities.…Section 156Allows the director, at a board’s request and consent, to contract on its behalf and to include specified hold-harmless terms in examination…Section 156.1Requires contractors providing alcohol- or drug-impairment treatment and rehabilitation services for licensees to retain records until departmental audit review and for three…Section 156.5Allows the director to negotiate short-term rental agreements for examination or meeting space and furnishings, include specified hold-harmless clauses, and advance deposits…Section 157Establishes that expenses incurred by or on behalf of a board in a criminal prosecution or an unprofessional-conduct proceeding are proper charges…Section 158Allows department boards and commissions, with director approval, to refund applicants found ineligible for examinations or credentials, and requires refunds of application…Section 159Allows members and executive officers of each board, agency, bureau, division, or commission to administer oaths and affirmations while conducting the entity’s…Section 159.5Establishes the Division of Investigation and its Health Quality Investigation Unit, placing specified peace-officer investigators in the division under director appointment and…Section 160Establishes peace-officer authority for the Division of Investigation chief and investigators and Dental Board investigators while performing statutory investigations or related criminal-prosecution…Section 160.5Requires affected civil-service employees transferred from the former Dental Board functions and Medical Board functions to retain their positions, status, and rights…Section 161Allows the department or a department board, consistent with public-records and privacy laws, to provide copies, compilations, extracts, or summaries of its…Section 162Establishes that a department board records officer’s certificate stating whether a person held a license, certificate, or registration on a specified date…Section 163Sets a $2 fee, unless another law expressly provides otherwise, for the department or a department board to certify a copy of…Section 163.5Sets delinquency, penalty, or late fees at 50% of the current renewal fee, with a $25 minimum and $150 maximum, and bars…Section 164Requires the Director of Consumer Affairs, after consulting the issuing agency and considering its views, to determine the form and content of…Section 165Prohibits department boards, bureaus, committees, commissions, and programs from sending the Legislature fiscal-impact analyses of pending legislation before director review and comment,…Section 166Requires the Director of Consumer Affairs to adopt guidelines for mandatory continuing-education programs covering course validity, occupational relevance, effective presentation, attendance, learning,…