CA SB 861
Title: Consumer affairs.
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Summary
SB 861, as amended, Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. Consumer affairs. (1) Existing law establishes in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency the Department of Consumer Affairs, which is composed of various agencies that license and regulate various businesses and professions. Existing law requires certain agencies to disclose information on the status of its licensees on the internet, as specified. In this regard, existing law specifies the licensees on which the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau is required to disclose information, including, among others, cemetery brokers, salespersons, and managers.This bill would also specify that the bureau is required to disclose information on licensed hydrolysis facilities and reduction facilities.(2) Existing law requires designated agencies in the Department of Consumer Affairs to require applicants to furnish a full set of fingerprints to the agency for purposes of conducting criminal history record checks.This bill would include the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners as one of those designated agencies.(3) The Dental Practice Act establishes the Dental Board of California to license and regulate the practice of dentistry, and repeals the provision establishing the board on January 1, 2029. Chapter 483 of the Statutes of 2024 revised the membership of the board by, among other things, removing a requirement that the board include a registered dental hygienist, and, instead, requiring the inclusion of a 2nd member who is a registered dental assistant.This bill would make conforming changes, including deleting obsolete references to a dental hygienist member of the board. (4) Existing law establishes the Dental Hygiene Board of California to license and regulate dental hygienists. Chapter 858 of the Statutes of 2018 created the board out of the former Dental Hygiene Committee of California, as specified. Existing law requires the dental hygiene board to make recommendations to the Dental Board of California regarding dental hygiene scope of practice issues. Existing law also requires the Dental Hygiene Board of California to establish the amount of fees relating to the licensing of dental hygienists and imposes limitations on those fees, including prohibiting the application fee for an original license and the fee for issuance of an original license from exceeding $250.This bill would remove the requirement for the dental hygiene board to make recommendations to the Dental Board of California, as described above. The bill would instead prohibit an application fee from exceeding $100 and an initial licensure fee from exceeding $150. The bill would make technical changes to the provisions regulating dental hygienists by, among other things, correcting references to the dental hygiene board and deleting an obsolete provision affecting the expiration of terms for members of the former Dental Hygiene Committee of California.(5) Existing law establishes the Licensed Physicians from Mexico Program under which the Medical Board of California is required to issue a 3-year physician and surgeon’s license to each licensed physician from Mexico who, among other requirements, passes a board review course with a score equivalent to that registered by United States applicants when passing a board review course for the United States certification examination in each of the physician’s specialty areas.This bill would delete that requirement.(6) The Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers Licensure Act establishes the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board to license and regulate speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and hearing aid dispensers. Existing law establishes the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Fund to deposit revenue received pursuant to the act and makes moneys in the fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature to carry out the purposes
Status
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
Bill Documents
CA SB 861 - 06/30/25 - Amended Assembly
06/30/25 - CA SB 861 (06/30/25 - Amended Assembly)
CA SB 861 - 05/14/25 - Amended Senate
05/14/25 - CA SB 861 (05/14/25 - Amended Senate)
CA SB 861 - 03/13/25 - Introduced
03/13/25 - CA SB 861 (03/13/25 - Introduced)