LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 389, as amended, Negrete McLeod. Professions and vocations.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various
professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer
Affairs. 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 that fingerprinting requirement applicable to
the Dental Board of California, the Dental Hygiene Committee of
California, the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau, the Osteopathic
Medical Board of California, the California Board of Podiatric
Medicine, and the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. The bill
would require new applicants for a license and,
and petitioners for reinstatement of a revoked,
surrendered, or canceled license, to successfully complete a state
and federal level criminal record information search. The bill would
also require, commencing January 1, 2011, licensees who have
not previously submitted fingerprints, or for whom a record of the
submission of fingerprints no longer exists, to successfully
complete the process necessary for a state and
federal level criminal offender record information search, as
specified. The bill would require licensees applying for licens
e renewal to certify compliance with that
requirement, as specified, and would subject a licensee to
disciplinary action for making a false certification. The bill would
also require a licensee to, as a condition of renewal of the license,
notify the board on the license renewal form if he or she , or
any member of the personnel of record of the licensee, has been
convicted, as defined, of a felony or misdemeanor since his
or her the last renewal, or if this is the
licensee's first renewal, since the initial license was issued.
The bill would provide that the Contractors' State License
Board shall implement the provisions pertaining to renewal licenses
on a specified schedule, after an appropriation is made for this
purpose, utilizing its applicable fees.