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SB 543 — Business and professions: regulatory boards.
Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 448, Statutes of 2011.
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Summary
(1) Existing law authorizes a board to suspend or revoke a license on various grounds, including, but not limited to, conviction of a crime, if the crime is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of the business or profession for which the license was issued. Existing law requires applicants to certain boards to provide a full set of fingerprints for the purpose of conducting criminal history record checks. This bill would make the fingerprinting requirement applicable to the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions to correct references to the names of various boards and would correct references to the name of a specified fund. (2) Existing law authorizes the Department of Consumer Affairs to enter into a contract with a vendor for the licensing and enforcement BreEZe system no sooner than 30 days after written notification to certain committees of the Legislature. Existing law requires the amount of contract funds for the system to be consistent with costs approved by the office of the State Chief Information Officer, based on information provided by the department in a specified manner. Existing law provides that this cost provision is applicable to all Budget Act items for the department that have an appropriation for the BreEZe system. This bill would authorize the Department of Finance to augment the budgets of those boards, bureaus, commissions, committees, programs, and divisions of the Department of Consumer Affairs for expenditure of non-General Fund moneys to pay BreEZe project costs, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. (3) Existing law, the Physical Therapy Practice Act, creates the Physical Therapy Board of California and makes it responsible for the licensure and regulation of physical therapists. Existing law authorizes the board to discipline licensees, including the suspension and revocation of licenses. Existing law regulating professional corporations provides that certain healing arts practitioners may be shareholders, officers, directors, or professional employees of a professional corporation, subject to certain limitations. A violation of these provisions by a licensee constitutes unprofessional conduct under the act. This bill would, until January 1, 2013, prohibit the board from taking disciplinary action against a licensee providing physical therapy services as a professional employee of a medical corporation, podiatric medical corporation, or chiropractic corporation. (4) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various businesses and professions by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs, including the California Board of Accountancy, the California Architects Board, the Landscape Architects Technical Committee, the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, the Contractors' State License Board, the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind, and the State Athletic Commission. Existing law requires or authorizes these boards and the State Athletic Commission, with certain exceptions, to appoint an executive officer and existing law authorizes the Governor to appoint the chief of the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2012. Under existing law, boards scheduled for repeal are required to be evaluated by the Joint Sunset Review Committee. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions until January 1, 2016, except the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind and the State Athletic Commission, which would be extended until January 1, 2014, and except the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, which would be extended until January 1, 2015. The bill would instead specify that these boards would be subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature. (5) With respect to accounting firms, existing law, until January 1, 2014, requires a firm, in order to renew its registration, to have a specified peer review report accepted by a California Board of Accountancy-recognized peer review group. Existing law, until January 1, 2014, requires the board to appoint a peer review oversight committee of certified public accountants to provide recommendations to the board relating to the effectiveness of mandatory peer review. Existing law also requires the board, by January 1, 2013, to provide the Legislature and the Governor with a report regarding specified peer review requirements that includes specified information. This bill would extend the operation of the peer review report requirement and the peer review oversight committee indefinitely. The bill would require the report to the Legislature and the Governor to be submitted by January 1, 2015, and would require the report to include certain additional information and recommendations. Existing law requires an accountant licensee to report to the board the occurrence of certain events taking place after January 1, 2003, including any restatement of a financial statement. This bill would exempt any restatement that is included in any report filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from this requirement. (6) Existing law authorizes the California Architects Board to, by regulation, implement an intern development program until July 1, 2012. This bill, by deleting that termination date, would instead authorize the board to, by regulation, implement the intern development program indefinitely. (7) Existing law prohibits a person from holding himself or herself out as a professional fiduciary without a license issued by the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau. Under existing law, a license may be suspended, revoked, denied, or other disciplinary action may be imposed for various reasons. This bill would authorize the bureau, instead of issuing an accusation or statement of issues against a licensee or applicant, to enter into a specified settlement with a licensee or applicant. (8) Existing law authorizes the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind to establish an arbitration panel pilot project, until January 1, 2012, for the purpose of resolving disputes between a guide dog user and a licensed guide dog school, as specified. This bill would instead authorize the arbitration panel pilot project until January 1, 2014. (9) Existing law requires an applicant to use the title "structural engineer" to have successfully passed both a written examination that incorporates a national examination for structural engineers and a supplemental California specific examination, as specified. This bill would instead require these applicants to pass only a written examination for structural engineering that is administered by a nationally recognized entity approved by the board. (10) Existing law establishes the Professional Engineer's and Land Surveyor's Fund, requires all money received by the Department of Consumer Affairs from the operation of the Professional Engineer's Act and the Professional Land Surveyor's Act to be deposited in the fund, and appropriates the moneys in the fund for the purposes of those acts. Existing law establishes the Geology and Geophysics Fund and requires the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists to provide all money received by the board under the Geologists and Geophysicists Act to the State Treasury for credit to the Geology and Geophysics Fund. This bill would abolish the Geology and Geophysics Fund, create the Geology and Geophysics Account within the Professional Engineer's and Land Surveyor's Fund, and require all moneys received by the board under the Geologists and Geophysicists Act to be deposited in that account. The bill would require all moneys paid into the account pursuant to the Geologists and Geophysicists Act to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of the act, thereby making an appropriation. (11) Existing law requires an applicant for registration as a geologist to pay an examination fee fixed by the board at an amount equal to the actual cost to the board to administer the examination, not to exceed $450. This bill would delete the provisions limiting the examination fee to $450. (12) Existing law requires the State Athletic Commission to provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature by July 30, 2010, regarding the condition of the State Athletic Commission Neurological Examination Account and the Boxers' Pension Fund, as specified. This bill would require the commission to provide the report to the Legislature by July 30, 2012. (13) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 205 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 933, to be operative only if SB 933 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective January 1, 2012, and this bill is chaptered last.
Bill Text
- Chaptered 10/03/11 - Chaptered Current pdf October 03, 2011
- Enrolled 09/13/11 - Enrolled pdf September 13, 2011
- Amended 09/02/11 - Amended Assembly pdf September 02, 2011
- Amended 08/30/11 - Amended Assembly pdf August 30, 2011
- Amended 08/15/11 - Amended Assembly pdf August 15, 2011
- Amended 07/12/11 - Amended Assembly pdf July 12, 2011
- Amended 06/23/11 - Amended Assembly pdf June 23, 2011
- Amended 04/14/11 - Amended Senate pdf April 14, 2011
- Amended 04/06/11 - Amended Senate pdf April 06, 2011
- Introduced 02/17/11 - Introduced pdf February 17, 2011
- SB543 View text html
Action History
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Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 448, Statutes of 2011.
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Approved by the Governor.
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Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
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Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 5. Page 2465.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 65. Noes 11. Page 3113.) Ordered to the Senate.
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Ordered to third reading.
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Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
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Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
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Ordered to third reading.
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Read third time and amended. (Ayes 49. Noes 26. Page 2825.)
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Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 25).
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Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 5).
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From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P.
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Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P.
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In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 1177.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 1014.) (May 16).
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Set for hearing May 16.
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From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 848.) (May 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.
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Set for hearing May 2.
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Hearing postponed by committee.
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From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.
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Set for hearing April 25.
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Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.
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From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
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Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Sponsors
- Hayashi · Cosponsor
- Price · Cosponsor
- Steinberg · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 2 co-sponsors · 119 not signed on · 5 voted No
Sponsors (1)
- Steinberg
Co-sponsors (2)
- Hayashi
- Price
Not signed on (119)
119 members have not signed on to this bill.
Show all 119 →"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.
Votes
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Unaffiliated | 30 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| Democratic | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 32 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
| % of votes cast | 80% | 13% | 0% | 8% |
How each member voted (40)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Yee | — | Yea |
| Wyland | — | Yea |
| Cannella | — | Yea |
| Fuller | — | Yea |
| Runner | — | Yea |
| Lowenthal | — | Yea |
| De León | — | Yea |
| Hancock | — | Yea |
| Correa | — | Yea |
| Hernandez | — | Yea |
| Kehoe | — | Yea |
| Liu | — | Yea |
| Pavley | — | Yea |
| Price | — | Yea |
| Simitian | — | Yea |
| Steinberg | — | Yea |
| Wolk | — | Yea |
| Rubio | — | Yea |
| Negrete McLeod | — | Not Voting |
| Anderson | — | Nay |
| Blakeslee | — | Nay |
| Dutton | — | Nay |
| Alquist | — | Yea |
| Harman | — | Yea |
| Huff | — | Not Voting |
| Leno | — | Yea |
| Lieu | — | Yea |
| Vargas | — | Yea |
| Walters | — | Not Voting |
| Wright | — | Yea |
| Corbett | — | Yea |
| Emmerson | — | Yea |
| Evans | — | Yea |
| DeSaulnier | — | Yea |
| Beth Gaines | — | Yea |
| Bill Berryhill | — | Yea |
| La Malfa | — | Nay |
| Calderon, Lisa | Democratic | Yea |
| Padilla, Stephen C. | Democratic | Yea |
| Strickland, Tony | Republican | Nay |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Unaffiliated | 63 | 10 | 0 | 4 |
| Republican | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Democratic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 65 | 11 | 0 | 4 |
| % of votes cast | 81% | 14% | 0% | 5% |
How each member voted (80)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Gordon | — | Yea |
| Hagman | — | Yea |
| Halderman | — | Nay |
| Portantino | — | Yea |
| John A. Pérez | — | Yea |
| Mitchell | — | Yea |
| Fletcher | — | Yea |
| Garrick | — | Nay |
| Campos | — | Yea |
| Bonilla | — | Yea |
| Atkins | — | Yea |
| Gorell | — | Not Voting |
| Hall | — | Yea |
| Harkey | — | Yea |
| Hueso | — | Yea |
| Jeffries | — | Nay |
| Knight | — | Nay |
| Lara | — | Yea |
| Mendoza | — | Yea |
| Block | — | Yea |
| Chesbro | — | Yea |
| Conway | — | Nay |
| Davis | — | Yea |
| Donnelly | — | Nay |
| Miller | — | Nay |
| Monning | — | Not Voting |
| Morrell | — | Nay |
| Nielsen | — | Yea |
| Norby | — | Yea |
| Pan | — | Yea |
| Smyth | — | Nay |
| Torres | — | Yea |
| Valadao | — | Yea |
| Wieckowski | — | Yea |
| Butler | — | Yea |
| Eng | — | Yea |
| Fuentes | — | Yea |
| Furutani | — | Yea |
| Carter | — | Yea |
| Gatto | — | Yea |
| Fong | — | Yea |
| Cedillo | — | Yea |
| Hill | — | Yea |
| Allen | — | Yea |
| Huber | — | Yea |
| Alejo | — | Yea |
| Olsen | — | Yea |
| Swanson | — | Yea |
| Wagner | — | Yea |
| Achadjian | — | Yea |
| Ammiano | — | Yea |
| Beall | — | Yea |
| Blumenfield | — | Yea |
| Bradford | — | Yea |
| Brownley | — | Yea |
| Buchanan | — | Yea |
| Hayashi | — | Yea |
| Huffman | — | Yea |
| Logue | — | Not Voting |
| Ma | — | Yea |
| Mansoor | — | Nay |
| Nestande | — | Yea |
| Perea | — | Yea |
| Silva | — | Not Voting |
| Skinner | — | Yea |
| Solorio | — | Yea |
| Williams | — | Yea |
| Cook | — | Yea |
| Feuer | — | Yea |
| Dickinson | — | Yea |
| Yamada | — | Yea |
| Galgiani | — | Yea |
| Beth Gaines | — | Yea |
| Bill Berryhill | — | Yea |
| Bonnie Lowenthal | — | Yea |
| Roger Hernández | — | Yea |
| V. Manuel Pérez | — | Yea |
| Calderon, Lisa | Democratic | Yea |
| Grove, Shannon | Republican | Nay |
| Jones, Brian W. | Republican | Yea |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 48 | 24 | 0 | 5 |
| Democratic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 49 | 26 | 0 | 5 |
| % of votes cast | 61% | 33% | 0% | 6% |
How each member voted (80)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Halderman | — | Nay |
| Feuer | — | Yea |
| Gatto | — | Yea |
| Hill | — | Yea |
| Huber | — | Yea |
| Butler | — | Yea |
| Ma | — | Yea |
| Carter | — | Yea |
| Fong | — | Yea |
| Allen | — | Yea |
| Perea | — | Yea |
| Cedillo | — | Yea |
| Swanson | — | Yea |
| Portantino | — | Yea |
| John A. Pérez | — | Yea |
| Mitchell | — | Yea |
| Gordon | — | Yea |
| Chesbro | — | Yea |
| Dickinson | — | Yea |
| Hall | — | Yea |
| Hueso | — | Yea |
| Huffman | — | Yea |
| Beall | — | Yea |
| Block | — | Yea |
| Blumenfield | — | Yea |
| Pan | — | Yea |
| Skinner | — | Yea |
| Atkins | — | Yea |
| Hagman | — | Nay |
| Campos | — | Yea |
| Lara | — | Yea |
| Mendoza | — | Yea |
| Conway | — | Nay |
| Cook | — | Nay |
| Monning | — | Yea |
| Olsen | — | Nay |
| Solorio | — | Yea |
| Wieckowski | — | Yea |
| Fletcher | — | Nay |
| Bonilla | — | Not Voting |
| Gorell | — | Not Voting |
| Harkey | — | Nay |
| Donnelly | — | Nay |
| Miller | — | Nay |
| Morrell | — | Nay |
| Nestande | — | Nay |
| Norby | — | Nay |
| Silva | — | Nay |
| Valadao | — | Nay |
| Achadjian | — | Nay |
| Alejo | — | Yea |
| Ammiano | — | Yea |
| Bradford | — | Yea |
| Brownley | — | Yea |
| Buchanan | — | Yea |
| Hayashi | — | Yea |
| Jeffries | — | Nay |
| Knight | — | Nay |
| Logue | — | Nay |
| Mansoor | — | Nay |
| Nielsen | — | Nay |
| Smyth | — | Nay |
| Torres | — | Yea |
| Wagner | — | Nay |
| Williams | — | Yea |
| Eng | — | Yea |
| Davis | — | Not Voting |
| Fuentes | — | Yea |
| Furutani | — | Not Voting |
| Galgiani | — | Yea |
| Garrick | — | Nay |
| Yamada | — | Yea |
| Beth Gaines | — | Nay |
| Bill Berryhill | — | Not Voting |
| Bonnie Lowenthal | — | Yea |
| Roger Hernández | — | Yea |
| V. Manuel Pérez | — | Yea |
| Calderon, Lisa | Democratic | Yea |
| Grove, Shannon | Republican | Nay |
| Jones, Brian W. | Republican | Nay |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Democratic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| % of votes cast | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
How each member voted (17)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Fuentes | — | Yea |
| Hall | — | Yea |
| Harkey | — | Yea |
| Mitchell | — | Yea |
| Campos | — | Yea |
| Hill | — | Yea |
| Lara | — | Yea |
| Nielsen | — | Yea |
| Norby | — | Yea |
| Wagner | — | Yea |
| Blumenfield | — | Yea |
| Bradford | — | Yea |
| Solorio | — | Yea |
| Davis | — | Yea |
| Donnelly | — | Yea |
| Gatto | — | Yea |
| Calderon, Lisa | Democratic | Yea |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| % of votes cast | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
How each member voted (9)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Hagman | — | Yea |
| Hayashi | — | Yea |
| Allen | — | Yea |
| Butler | — | Yea |
| Smyth | — | Yea |
| Hill | — | Yea |
| Ma | — | Yea |
| Eng | — | Yea |
| Bill Berryhill | — | Yea |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 34 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Republican | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Democratic | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 37 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| % of votes cast | 93% | 3% | 0% | 5% |
How each member voted (40)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Yee | — | Yea |
| Wyland | — | Yea |
| Cannella | — | Yea |
| Runner | — | Yea |
| Lowenthal | — | Yea |
| De León | — | Yea |
| Negrete McLeod | — | Yea |
| Rubio | — | Yea |
| Hancock | — | Yea |
| Harman | — | Yea |
| Corbett | — | Yea |
| Hernandez | — | Yea |
| Dutton | — | Yea |
| Kehoe | — | Yea |
| Anderson | — | Nay |
| Blakeslee | — | Yea |
| Leno | — | Yea |
| Liu | — | Yea |
| Pavley | — | Yea |
| Price | — | Yea |
| Simitian | — | Yea |
| Steinberg | — | Yea |
| Vargas | — | Yea |
| Walters | — | Yea |
| Wolk | — | Yea |
| Wright | — | Yea |
| Alquist | — | Yea |
| Huff | — | Yea |
| Lieu | — | Yea |
| Emmerson | — | Yea |
| Correa | — | Not Voting |
| Evans | — | Yea |
| DeSaulnier | — | Yea |
| Fuller | — | Yea |
| Beth Gaines | — | Yea |
| Bill Berryhill | — | Not Voting |
| La Malfa | — | Yea |
| Calderon, Lisa | Democratic | Yea |
| Padilla, Stephen C. | Democratic | Yea |
| Strickland, Tony | Republican | Yea |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| % of votes cast | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
How each member voted (9)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Runner | — | Yea |
| Lieu | — | Yea |
| Price | — | Yea |
| Steinberg | — | Yea |
| Alquist | — | Yea |
| Kehoe | — | Yea |
| Pavley | — | Yea |
| Walters | — | Yea |
| Emmerson | — | Yea |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| % of votes cast | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
How each member voted (9)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Wyland | — | Yea |
| Negrete McLeod | — | Yea |
| Price | — | Yea |
| Vargas | — | Yea |
| Hernandez | — | Yea |
| Walters | — | Yea |
| Corbett | — | Yea |
| Emmerson | — | Yea |
| Correa | — | Yea |
Subjects
Frequently asked questions
- What does SB 543 do?
- (1) Existing law authorizes a board to suspend or revoke a license on various grounds, including, but not limited to, conviction of a crime, if the crime is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of the business or profession for which the license was issued. Existing law requires applicants to certain boards to provide a full set of fingerprints for the purpose of conducting criminal history record checks. This bill would make the fingerprinting requirement applicable to the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions to correct references to the names of various boards and would correct references to the name of a specified fund. (2) Existing law authorizes the Department of Consumer Affairs to enter into a contract with a vendor for the licensing and enforcement BreEZe system no sooner than 30 days after written notification to certain committees of the Legislature. Existing law requires the amount of contract funds for the system to be consistent with costs approved by the office of the State Chief Information Officer, based on information provided by the department in a specified manner. Existing law provides that this cost provision is applicable to all Budget Act items for the department that have an appropriation for the BreEZe system. This bill would authorize the Department of Finance to augment the budgets of those boards, bureaus, commissions, committees, programs, and divisions of the Department of Consumer Affairs for expenditure of non-General Fund moneys to pay BreEZe project costs, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. (3) Existing law, the Physical Therapy Practice Act, creates the Physical Therapy Board of California and makes it responsible for the licensure and regulation of physical therapists. Existing law authorizes the board to discipline licensees, including the suspension and revocation of licenses. Existing law regulating professional corporations provides that certain healing arts practitioners may be shareholders, officers, directors, or professional employees of a professional corporation, subject to certain limitations. A violation of these provisions by a licensee constitutes unprofessional conduct under the act. This bill would, until January 1, 2013, prohibit the board from taking disciplinary action against a licensee providing physical therapy services as a professional employee of a medical corporation, podiatric medical corporation, or chiropractic corporation. (4) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various businesses and professions by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs, including the California Board of Accountancy, the California Architects Board, the Landscape Architects Technical Committee, the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, the Contractors' State License Board, the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind, and the State Athletic Commission. Existing law requires or authorizes these boards and the State Athletic Commission, with certain exceptions, to appoint an executive officer and existing law authorizes the Governor to appoint the chief of the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2012. Under existing law, boards scheduled for repeal are required to be evaluated by the Joint Sunset Review Committee. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions until January 1, 2016, except the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind and the State Athletic Commission, which would be extended until January 1, 2014, and except the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, which would be extended until January 1, 2015. The bill would instead specify that these boards would be subject to review by the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature. (5) With respect to accounting firms, existing law, until January 1, 2014, requires a firm, in order to renew its registration, to have a specified peer review report accepted by a California Board of Accountancy-recognized peer review group. Existing law, until January 1, 2014, requires the board to appoint a peer review oversight committee of certified public accountants to provide recommendations to the board relating to the effectiveness of mandatory peer review. Existing law also requires the board, by January 1, 2013, to provide the Legislature and the Governor with a report regarding specified peer review requirements that includes specified information. This bill would extend the operation of the peer review report requirement and the peer review oversight committee indefinitely. The bill would require the report to the Legislature and the Governor to be submitted by January 1, 2015, and would require the report to include certain additional information and recommendations. Existing law requires an accountant licensee to report to the board the occurrence of certain events taking place after January 1, 2003, including any restatement of a financial statement. This bill would exempt any restatement that is included in any report filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from this requirement. (6) Existing law authorizes the California Architects Board to, by regulation, implement an intern development program until July 1, 2012. This bill, by deleting that termination date, would instead authorize the board to, by regulation, implement the intern development program indefinitely. (7) Existing law prohibits a person from holding himself or herself out as a professional fiduciary without a license issued by the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau. Under existing law, a license may be suspended, revoked, denied, or other disciplinary action may be imposed for various reasons. This bill would authorize the bureau, instead of issuing an accusation or statement of issues against a licensee or applicant, to enter into a specified settlement with a licensee or applicant. (8) Existing law authorizes the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind to establish an arbitration panel pilot project, until January 1, 2012, for the purpose of resolving disputes between a guide dog user and a licensed guide dog school, as specified. This bill would instead authorize the arbitration panel pilot project until January 1, 2014. (9) Existing law requires an applicant to use the title "structural engineer" to have successfully passed both a written examination that incorporates a national examination for structural engineers and a supplemental California specific examination, as specified. This bill would instead require these applicants to pass only a written examination for structural engineering that is administered by a nationally recognized entity approved by the board. (10) Existing law establishes the Professional Engineer's and Land Surveyor's Fund, requires all money received by the Department of Consumer Affairs from the operation of the Professional Engineer's Act and the Professional Land Surveyor's Act to be deposited in the fund, and appropriates the moneys in the fund for the purposes of those acts. Existing law establishes the Geology and Geophysics Fund and requires the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists to provide all money received by the board under the Geologists and Geophysicists Act to the State Treasury for credit to the Geology and Geophysics Fund. This bill would abolish the Geology and Geophysics Fund, create the Geology and Geophysics Account within the Professional Engineer's and Land Surveyor's Fund, and require all moneys received by the board under the Geologists and Geophysicists Act to be deposited in that account. The bill would require all moneys paid into the account pursuant to the Geologists and Geophysicists Act to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of the act, thereby making an appropriation. (11) Existing law requires an applicant for registration as a geologist to pay an examination fee fixed by the board at an amount equal to the actual cost to the board to administer the examination, not to exceed $450. This bill would delete the provisions limiting the examination fee to $450. (12) Existing law requires the State Athletic Commission to provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature by July 30, 2010, regarding the condition of the State Athletic Commission Neurological Examination Account and the Boxers' Pension Fund, as specified. This bill would require the commission to provide the report to the Legislature by July 30, 2012. (13) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 205 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 933, to be operative only if SB 933 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective January 1, 2012, and this bill is chaptered last.
- Who sponsors SB 543?
- SB 543 is sponsored by Hayashi, Price, and Steinberg.
- What is the current status of SB 543?
- This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 17, 2011. Enacted.
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