California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly BillNo. 180


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policy committees of the Legislature and that the review is required to be performed as if the act is scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2020.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:

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SECTION 1.  

Section 9625 of the Business and Professions
2Code
is amended to read:

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9625.  

begin insert(a)end insertbegin insertend insertThere is in the department, the Cemetery and Funeral
2Bureau, under the supervision and control of the director.

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3The

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4begin insert(b)end insertbegin insertend insertbegin insertTheend insert director may appoint a chief at a salary to be fixed and
5determined by the director, with the approval of the Director of
6Finance. The duty of enforcing and administering this chapter is
7vested in the chief, and he or she is responsible to the director
8therefor. The chief shall serve at the pleasure of the director.

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9(c) Notwithstanding any other law, the powers and duties of the
10bureau, as set forth in this chapter, shall be subject to review by
11the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature. The review
12shall be performed as if this chapter were scheduled to be repealed
13on January 1, 2020.

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