Bill Text: CA AB1702 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Professions and vocations: incarceration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-18 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 410, Statutes of 2014. [AB1702 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1702-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1702	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  410
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 13, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 15, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Maienschein
   (Coauthor: Senator Mitchell)

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2014

   An act to add Section 480.5 to the Business and Professions Code,
relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1702, Maienschein. Professions and vocations: incarceration.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various
professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer
Affairs, among other entities. Existing law establishes various
eligibility criteria needed to qualify for a license and authorizes a
board to deny a license on the grounds that the applicant has been
convicted of a crime substantially related to the qualifications,
functions, or duties of the business or profession for which
application is made.
   This bill would provide that an individual who has satisfied any
of the requirements needed to obtain a license while incarcerated,
who applies for that license upon release from incarceration, and who
is otherwise eligible for the license shall not be subject to a
delay in processing the application or a denial of the license solely
on the basis that some or all of the licensure requirements were
completed while the individual was incarcerated.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 480.5 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
   480.5.  (a) An individual who has satisfied any of the
requirements needed to obtain a license regulated under this division
while incarcerated, who applies for that license upon release from
incarceration, and who is otherwise eligible for the license shall
not be subject to a delay in processing his or her application or a
denial of the license solely on the basis that some or all of the
licensure requirements were completed while the individual was
incarcerated.
   (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to a
petition for reinstatement of a license or to limit the ability of a
board to deny a license pursuant to Section 480.
   (c) This section shall not apply to the licensure of individuals
under the initiative act referred to in Chapter 2 (commencing with
Section 1000) of Division 2.