Professions and vocations: licenses: military service.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes a licensee or registrant who permitted his or her license to expire while serving in any branch of the armed services of the United States during a period of war, as defined, to, upon application, reinstate his or her license without examination or penalty if certain requirements are satisfied. This bill would instead authorize a licensee or registrant whose license expired while the licensee or registrant was on active duty as a member of the California National Guard or the United States Armed Forces to, upon application, reinstate his or her license without penalty and without examination, if those requirements are satisfied, unless the licensing agency determines that the applicant has not actively engaged in the practice of his or her profession while on active duty, as specified. The bill would make other conforming and technical changes.