BILL NUMBER: AB 180	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Business and Professions (Assembly
Members Bonilla (Chair), Bloom, Dodd, Gatto, Holden, Mullin, Ting,
and Wood)

                        JANUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 9625 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to cemeteries.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 180, as introduced, Committee on Business and Professions.
Cemetery and Funeral Bureau.
   The Cemetery Act provides for the licensure and regulation of
cemeteries, crematories, and their personnel by the Cemetery and
Funeral Bureau that is within the Department of Consumer Affairs. The
act authorizes the Director of Consumer Affairs with the approval of
the Director of Finance to appoint a chief of the bureau who is
vested with the duty to enforce the act and serves at the pleasure of
the director.
   This bill would provide that the powers and duties of the bureau
under the act are subject to review by the appropriate policy
committees of the Legislature and that the review is required to be
performed as if the act is scheduled to be repealed on January 1,
2020.
   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 9625 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   9625.   (a)    There is in the department, the
Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, under the supervision and control of the
director. 
   The 
    (b)     The  director may appoint a
chief at a salary to be fixed and determined by the director, with
the approval of the Director of Finance. The duty of enforcing and
administering this chapter is vested in the chief, and he or she is
responsible to the director therefor. The chief shall serve at the
pleasure of the director. 
   (c) Notwithstanding any other law, the powers and duties of the
bureau, as set forth in this chapter, shall be subject to review by
the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature. The review
shall be performed as if this chapter were scheduled to be repealed
on January 1, 2020.