Sections
21 entriesSection 8020Defines certified shorthand reporter eligibility as over 18, required education, no stated denial grounds, and a passed or qualifying examination. Exam admission…Section 8020.5Requires the court-reporter examination to include English, Professional Practice, and Dictation/Transcription, with a 95 percent passing grade for Dictation/Transcription and criterion-referenced scores…Section 8021Requires court-reporter examinations to be held at least semiannually and allows the board to designate the examination times and places. The provision…Section 8022Requires each certificate applicant to file the board-prescribed application with the executive officer by a deadline established in board regulations and pay…Section 8023Prohibits issuance of a certificate until the applicant has passed the examination prescribed by the board. Makes passing that board-prescribed examination a…Section 8023.5Allows the board, when a certificate applicant comes from a country whose principal spoken language is not English, to examine the applicant’s…Section 8024Sets court-reporter certificates valid one year, except the initial period, expiring at midnight on the last day of the licensee’s birth month…Section 8024.1Requires every certificate recipient to pay the prescribed initial certificate fee, in addition to other applicable fees, before issuance. Allows the board…Section 8024.2Allows an expired certificate to be renewed within the Section 8024.5 period by filing the board form, paying the renewal fee, and…Section 8024.3Requires a suspended certificate to expire and be renewed under the article, but bars the holder from the certificate-related activity or conduct…Section 8024.4Bars renewal of a revoked court-reporter certificate even though it remains subject to expiration. If reinstated after expiration, the holder must pay…Section 8024.5Bars a certificate not renewed within three years after expiration from later renewal, restoration, reinstatement, or reissuance, and requires the holder to…Section 8024.6Requires certificate holders to notify the board in writing in Sacramento within 30 days of each name or address change, providing old…Section 8024.7Establishes an inactive shorthand-reporting license category for persons not actively practicing and bars inactive holders from licensed activity. Requires inactive renewal on…Section 8024.8Requires the board to record whether certificate holders qualified through shorthand, machine shorthand, or voice writing and to treat all methods equally.…Section 8024.9Defines a “valid email address” as a nonpersonal address currently receiving email about licensed activities when application or renewal is submitted, and…Section 8025Allows suspension, revocation, denial, or other discipline of a court-reporter certificate for specified grounds including relevant convictions, nondisclosure, fraud, professional misconduct, repeated…Section 8025.1Allows the board to deny, suspend, or revoke a court-reporter certificate for incapacity or substance abuse and require an examination on reasonable…Section 8026Defines a guilty plea or verdict, or a conviction after a no-contest plea, on a charge substantially related to certified shorthand reporting…Section 8027Requires court-reporting schools to notify board within 30 days of seeking approval; the board responds within 60 days. New programs seek provisional…Section 8027.5Allows the board, through authorized representatives, to issue administrative citations or assess fines for violations of rules and regulations the board adopted…