2016 Summary of Legislation - Effective January 1, 2017*

AB 1658 BIGELOW (CHAPTER 242, STATUTES OF 2016)

1. Happy Homestead Cemetery District: nonresident burial

This bill authorizes the Happy Homestead Cemetery District to inter residents of specified Nevada communities if they meet specified conditions. (Adds Health and Safety Code section 9063.3)

AB 2636 LINDER (CHAPTER 527, STATUTES OF 2016)

1. Certified copies of marriage, birth, and death certificates: electronic application

This bill allows an official, if an electronic request for a certified copy of a birth, death, or marriage record is made, to accept an electronic verification of identity of the applicant using a remote identity proofing process, as specified, or a notarized statement of identity, to ensure the applicant is authorized under law to receive that record. Specifies what the multilayered remote identity proofing process for the electronic verification authentication must include. (Amends Health and Safety Code section 103526; Adds Health and Safety Code section 103527.5)

AB 2859 LOW (CHAPTER 473, STATUTES OF 2016)

1. Professions and vocations: retired category: licenses

This bill allows all programs within DCA to establish, by regulation, a system to issue retired licenses for persons not actively engaged in the practice of their profession, with specified limitations. (Adds Business and Professions Code section 464)

SB 66 LEYVA (CHAPTER 770, STATUTES OF 2016)

1. Career technical education

This bill requires DCA, in accordance with state and federal privacy laws, to provide specific licensure data to the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges in order to measure employment outcomes of students who participate in career technical education programs offered by the California Community Colleges. (Amends Business and Professions Code section 30)

SB 1171 COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY (CHAPTER 86, STATUTES OF 2016)

1. Maintenance of the codes

This bill makes non-substantive changes in various provisions of law to effectuate the recommendations made by the Legislative Counsel to the Legislature. (Amends Business and Professions Code section 7685)

SB 1179 VIDAK (CHAPTER 592, STATUTES OF 2016)

1. Public cemetery districts: interment rights

This bill: 1) establishes that within a public cemetery district an interment right is a transferable property interest; 2) requires the owner of an interment right, at the time of purchase, to determine a successor owner in writing; 3) provides employees or trustees of the public cemetery district with immunity from liability for any claims, losses, or damages resulting from transferring an interment right; and 4) provides the circumstances and process under which human remains may be disinterred, reinterred, or removed from a public cemetery district and specifies the records they are required to maintain. (Amends Health and Safety Code section 9002; and Adds Chapter 5.5 commencing with section 9069.10 to Part 4 of Division 8 of Health and Safety Code)

SB 1284 HERNANDEZ (CHAPTER 39, STATUTES OF 2016)

1. Human remains: conservator of the person or estate

This bill allows the conservator of a person and the conservator of an estate to control the disposition of a decedent's remains when a decedent's next of kin fails to act on interment rights or cannot be found. (Amends Health and Safety Code section 7105)

SB 1348 CANNELLA (CHAPTER 174, STATUTES OF 2016)

1. Licensure applications: military experience

This bill requires DCA programs that accept military education, experience, or training to post that information on their website. (Amends Business and Professions Code section 114.5)

SB 1479 COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (CHAPTER 634, STATUTES OF 2016)

1. Business and professions

As it relates to the Bureau, this bill requires the endowment care fund and special care fund annual report be prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. (Amends Business and Professions Code section 7612.6)