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

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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-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1702	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	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, as amended, 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
 based on the prior incarceration, except when the
incarceration was for a crime substantially related to the
qualifications, functions, or duties of the business or profession.
  on the basis that some or all of the licensure
requirements were completed while the individual was incarcerated.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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 
code   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
 based on the prior incarceration, except as provided in
Section 480.   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.