Existing law provides for the regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs and for the licensure or registration of individuals in that regard. Existing law authorizes any licensee whose license expired while he or she was on active duty as a member of the California National Guard or the United States Armed Forces to reinstate his or her license without examination or penalty if certain requirements are met. This bill would require the boards described above, with certain exceptions, to waive the renewal fees, continuing education requirements, and other renewal requirements as determined by the board, if any are applicable, of any licensee or registrant who is called to active duty as a member of the United States Armed Forces or the California National Guard if certain requirements are met. The bill would, except as specified, prohibit a licensee or registrant from engaging in any activities requiring a license while a waiver is in effect. The bill would require a licensee or registrant to meet certain renewal requirements within a specified time period after being discharged from active duty service prior to engaging in any activity requiring a license. The bill would require a licensee or registrant to notify the board of his or her discharge from active duty within a specified time period.
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Existing law, the Real Estate Appraisers' Licensing and Certification Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of real estate appraisers and vests the duty of enforcing and administering that law in the Office of Real Estate Appraisers. Existing law authorizes the Director of the Office of Real Estate Appraisers to adopt regulations governing the process and procedure of licensing real estate appraisers, as specified. (1) Existing law authorizes the Director of the Office of Real Estate Appraisers to issue to a licensee, or course provider, as specified, a citation that may impose the requirement to complete an education course or courses by the licensee, under specified conditions. Existing law provides for the automatic suspension of a real estate appraiser's license if the licensee fails to satisfactorily or timely complete an education course as imposed by the citation. This bill would prohibit the renewal of a license if the licensee fails to satisfactorily complete the additional education requirements imposed by the citation, as specified. (2) Existing law authorizes the office to publish a summary of public disciplinary actions taken by the office against licensees and registrants, including resignations while under investigation. This bill would authorize the office to institute or continue disciplinary proceedings against a licensee or registrant, or to suspend or revoke a license or certificate of registration, notwithstanding the expiration, or suspension, cancellation, or forfeiture by operation of law, or by an order of the office or a court of law, of the license or certificate of registration, as specified. (3) Existing law requires fingerprinting and background checks, as specified, by the Department of Justice of applicants for real estate appraiser licenses and each controlling person of an applicant for registration as an appraisal management company. This bill would require the applicants for real estate appraiser licenses and each controlling person of each applicant for registration as an appraisal management company to submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and information via LiveScan. The bill would also require that applicants located out of state submit fingerprint cards with their application package, for submission by the office to the department. (4) Existing law sets forth standards with which an appraisal management company needs to comply regarding independent contractor appraisers, including standards relating to licensure, performance of appraisal services, and appraisal reports. This bill would, in addition, make these requirements applicable to employee appraisers, as specified. (5) Existing law prohibits a registered appraisal management company from requiring an appraiser to provide it with the appraiser's digital signature or seal. Existing law, however, allows an appraiser to provide his or her digital signature or seal to another person voluntarily. This bill would allow an appraiser to provide his or her digital signature or seal to another person only to the extent permissible under the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraiser Practice. (6) Existing law requires the department to charge licensing and issuance-related fees to each applicant, and requires that these fees be paid to the office at the time of filing the application. Existing law also provides that fees may be paid, among other means, by government purchase order. This bill would remove the requirement that issuance-related fees be paid at the time of filing that application. The bill would also delete the provision allowing payment of these fees by government purchase order. (7) Existing law requires that applications for a license be submitted to the office within one year of the successful completion of the required examination. This bill would instead specify that an applicant is not eligible to have a license issued unless he or she notifies the office within one year of successful completion of the required examination. (8) This bill would also delete an obsolete reference and make other conforming changes.
Existing law prescribes various duties for the Department of General Services in connection with development and maintenance of the park around the State Capitol Building. This bill would authorize the American Portuguese Club Incorporated, in consultation with the department and a specifically created committee, to construct and maintain a memorial in the existing All Veterans Memorial to honor California American Portuguese veterans. It would require that the planning, construction, and maintenance of the memorial be funded with private donations through the American Portuguese Club Incorporated. It would prohibit construction of the memorial until the master plan of the State Capitol Park is approved and adopted by the Joint Committee on Rules and the Joint Committee on Rules, and the Department of Finance have determined that sufficient private funding is available to construct and maintain the memorial. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law prescribes various duties for the Department of General Services in connection with development and maintenance of the park around the State Capitol Building. This bill would authorize the Ronald Reagan Centennial Capitol Foundation, in consultation with the Department of General Services, to plan a statue of Ronald Reagan in the State Capitol Building Annex. The bill would require the Department of General Services and the Ronald Reagan Centennial Capitol Foundation to approve the design and any other aspect of the statue. The bill would require that the planning, construction, and maintenance of the statue be funded with private donations through the Ronald Reagan Centennial Capitol Foundation. The bill would prohibit construction of the statue until the Joint Committee on Rules has approved and adopted the plan for the statue, and the Joint Committee on Rules and the Department of Finance have determined that sufficient private funding is available to construct and maintain the statue.
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 establishes the Delta Stewardship Council, which is required to develop, adopt, and commence implementation of a comprehensive management plan for the Delta by January 1, 2012. The act requires a state or local public agency that proposes to undertake a covered action to prepare a written certification, as prescribed, as to whether the covered action is consistent with the Delta Plan. The act defines "covered action" to mean a plan, program, or project that meets specified conditions. This bill would exclude from the definition of "covered action" specified leases approved by the Port of Stockton or the Port of West Sacramento and routine dredging activities, as defined, necessary for maintenance of facilities operated by the Port of Stockton or the Port of West Sacramento.
Existing law, requires the Department of Water Resources to develop and submit to the Reclamation Board criteria for adoption by the board for the maintenance and improvement of nonproject levees, as prescribed. Existing law requires the department to inspect completed maintenance or improvement work, as specified, and requires the department to submit to the board a report upon completion of an inspection, as to its finding. Existing law also authorizes the department and the board to cooperate with the United States Army Corps of Engineers to develop and implement delta levee rehabilitation, improvement, and realignment, and to enhance the environment. This bill would, instead, define "board" for the above purposes as the Central Valley Flood Protection Board. Existing law establishes a delta levee maintenance program pursuant to which a local agency may request reimbursement for costs incurred in connection with the maintenance or improvement of project or nonproject levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Existing law declares legislative intent to reimburse eligible local agencies under this program, until July 1, 2013, in an amount not to exceed 75% of those costs that are incurred in excess of $1,000 per mile of levee, and on and after that date, in an amount not to exceed 50% of those described costs. This bill, instead, would declare legislative intent to reimburse up to 75% of those described costs until July 1, 2018, and on and after that date, to reimburse up to 50% of those described costs. Existing law, until July 1, 2013, authorizes the board to provide funds to an eligible local agency under this program in the form of an advance in an amount that does not exceed 75% of the estimated state share. This bill would extend the operation of that authorization to July 1, 2018.
Existing law requires specified information to be provided to patients regarding their health care. Existing federal law requires a written report of the results of each mammography examination and requires a summary of that report to be sent to the patient within a specified time period. This bill, from April 1, 2013, until January 1, 2019, would require, under specified circumstances, a health facility at which a mammography examination is performed to include in the summary of the written report that is sent to the patient a prescribed notice on breast density.
This measure would recognize September 2012 as Recovery Month in California, in order to raise awareness of the importance of substance use disorders treatment and to help people living with substance use disorders and their families to receive treatment.
This measure would recognize the 45th anniversary of Kwanzaa and proclaim December 26 through January 1 each year as Kwanzaa Week.
This measure would recognize the 25th anniversary of the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial on November 23, 2013, and encourage all Californians to take part in ceremonies, organized by the California State Council of Vietnam Veterans of America along with assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs and other veterans service organizations. This measure would call upon the state archives to display memorabilia in a special display on the Vietnam War, as provided, the California State Military Museum to prepare and display exhibits on the Vietnam War, as provided, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to add names to the memorial, as provided.