Bill Text: CA AB2554 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Contractors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 85, Statutes of 2012. [AB2554 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB2554-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2554	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  85
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 10, 2012
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 10, 2012
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 25, 2012
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 27, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bill Berryhill

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Sections 7011.4 and 7106.5 of the Business and
Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2554, Bill Berryhill. Contractors.
   Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, provides for the
licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors' State
License Board. Under existing law, there is an enforcement unit
within the board with specified responsibilities. Under existing law,
the registrar of contractors is the executive officer and secretary
of the board and is required to carry out specified administrative
duties. Under existing law, the expiration, cancellation, forfeiture,
suspension, or voluntary surrender of a license does not deprive the
registrar of jurisdiction to proceed with, among other things, any
investigation or disciplinary proceeding against the license.
   This bill would rename the enforcement unit as the enforcement
division and would additionally specify that revocation of a license
does not deprive the board of that jurisdiction.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 7011.4 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   7011.4.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 7011, there is in the
Contractors' State License Board, a separate enforcement division
which shall rigorously enforce this chapter prohibiting all forms of
unlicensed activity.
   (b) Persons employed as enforcement representatives in this
division and designated by the Director of Consumer Affairs are not
peace officers and are not entitled to safety member retirement
benefits. They do not have the power of arrest. However, they may
issue a written notice to appear in court pursuant to Chapter 5c
(commencing with Section 853.5) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal
Code.
  SEC. 2.  Section 7106.5 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   7106.5.  The expiration, cancellation, forfeiture, revocation, or
suspension of a license by operation of law or by order or decision
of the registrar or a court of law, or the voluntary surrender of a
license by a licensee, shall not deprive the registrar of
jurisdiction to proceed with any investigation of or action or
disciplinary proceeding against the license, or to render a decision
suspending or revoking the license.