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2015 Summary of Legislation - Effective January 1, 2016*

AB 180 BONILLA (CHAPTER 395, STATUTES OF 2015)

1. Cemetery and Funeral Bureau

This bill subjects the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to sunset review as if it were set to sunset on January 1, 2020 and includes a merger of the Cemetery Act with the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Act and a merger of the Bureau's two separate special funds, the latter of which will take effect July 1, 2016. The bill also requires the Bureau conduct a study and report to the Assembly Committee on Business and Professions and the Senate Committee on Business, Professions, and Economic Development by January 1, 2018 on the sufficiency of endowment care funds used by cemeteries for future operations.

AB 181 BONILLA (CHAPTER 430, STATUTES OF 2015)

1. Business and Professions

This bill makes several minor, non-controversial, or technical changes to various provisions related to licensing programs of the Department of Consumer Affairs. Specific to the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau; this bill requires a funeral establishment that maintains an Internet Web site to post information about its goods and services by a link from the homepage containing specified key words. (Amends BPC section 7685)

AB 1352 EGGMAN (CHAPTER 646, STATUTES OF 2015)

1. Deferred Entry of Judgment: Withdrawal of Plea

This bill authorizes a defendant who has successfully completed a deferred entry of judgment treatment program on or after January 1, 1997, to obtain a dismissal of the plea, upon which the deferred entry of judgment was granted under specified procedures. This dismissal is available to the former defendant if he or she performed satisfactorily during the deferred entry of judgment period, and the charges were dismissed pursuant to the program. If court records are not available, a defendant's declaration under penalty of perjury that the charges were dismissed after completion of the deferred entry of judgment program shall be presumed true if the defendant submits a copy of his or her state summary criminal history information. (Adds Penal Code section 1203.43)

SB 560 MONNING (CHAPTER 389, STATUTES OF 2015)

1. Licensing Boards: Unemployment Insurance

This bill requires all Department programs to share specified licensee information with the Employment Development Department upon request. (Amends BPC sections 30, 7011.4, and 7125.4)

SB 570 JACKSON (CHAPTER 543, STATUTES OF 2015)

1. Personal Information: Privacy: Breach

This bill revises existing data breach notification requirements to include required content under specified headings. Additionally, this bill provides a sample data breach notification form that entities may use to comply with these new formatting requirements. (Amends Civil Code sections 1798.29 and 1798.82)