Members of boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs: per diem.

Existing law establishes various boards, as defined, within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations. Existing law requires a member of certain boards to receive a per diem of $100 for each day actually spent in the discharge of official duties and to be reimbursed for traveling and other expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of official duties. Existing law requires payment to be made only from the fund from which the expenses of the board are paid and subject to availability of money in the fund. Existing law conditions receipt of these moneys on authorization in specified provisions, some of which authorize these expenditures from a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would recast those provisions to, instead, base the per diem of $100 on each day that the member discharged official duties, and would require the board to define "day that the member discharged official duties" as either the "accumulation of 8 hours spent in the discharge of official duties" or as a "day on which the member performed an official duty." By expanding the authorization for the use of moneys in a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would also make nonsubstantive, clarifying changes.