BUSINESS

• AB 39, Grayson. Digital financial asset businesses: regulatory oversight. Establishes a licensing and regulatory framework, administered by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) for digital financial asset business activity, as specified. An act to add Division 1.25 (commencing with Section 3101) to the Financial Code, relating to financial regulation.

• AB 128, Committee on Budget. Cannabis: background checks and Cannabis event organizer license type. This bill is the Cannabis budget trailer bill and contains the necessary changes to implement provisions included in the Budget Act of 2023, which includes technical changes related to criminal history information background checks. An act to amend Sections 26050 and 26051.5 of, and to add Section 26010.6 to, the Business and Professions Code, relating to Cannabis, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

• AB 231, Chen. Shareholders' meetings: remote communication. This bill provides additional flexibility to corporations to offer audiovisual or audio-only participation in shareholder or member meetings, as specified. An act to amend Sections 600, 5510, 7510, 9411, and 12460 of the Corporations Code, relating to corporations.

• AB 307, Chen. Structural fumigation enforcement program. This bill extends the sunset date for the Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program (Program) under the Department of Pesticide Regulation to January 1, 2029. An act to amend Section 8698.6 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to structural fumigation.

• AB 336, Cervantes. Contractors: workers' compensation insurance. This bill requires a contractor licensee, at the time of renewal, to certify on a license renewal form the three workers' compensation classification codes for which the highest estimated payroll is reported, as specified. An act to add Section 7125.6 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to contractors.

• AB 341, Ramos. Gambling: local moratorium. This bill reinstates a gambling moratorium until January 1, 2043, related to the expansion of cardroom gaming and the issuance of new gambling licenses in the state, except as provided. Additionally, this bill authorizes a local jurisdiction to amend its local ordinance to increase the number of gambling tables that may be operated in a gambling establishment that operates fewer than 20 tables, by up to two additional tables the first year and up to two additional tables every four years thereafter, not to exceed 10 additional tables, as specified. An act to add Section 19961.07 to, and to add and repeal Sections 19962 and 19963 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to gambling.

• AB 416, Muratsuchi. Sale of shochu. This bill allows any on-sale licensee that is currently authorized to sell wine, to also sell shochu, an imported Japanese alcoholic beverage that contains no more than 24% of alcohol by volume (• ABV) and is derived from agricultural products. An act to amend Section 23398.5 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• AB 476, Villapudua. Outdoor advertising displays: exemptions. This bill authorizes the County of San Joaquin to construct, on public property owned by the County, digital displays that promote public health and safety. An act to amend Section 5272 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to outdoor advertising.

• AB 502, Lee. Food delivery platforms: disclosure. Prohibits a listing website, as defined, from associating a telephone number or other method of direct communication with a food facility on their internet website or application that the listing website knows would result in a forwarded call, as defined. Requires the listing website to clearly and conspicuously disclose if an order placed through a telephone number or other interface on their internet website or application may result in a fee, commission, or cost paid to a party other than the food facility, and identify that other party. An act to amend Sections 22598 and 22599.1 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to food delivery.

• AB 542, Juan Carrillo. Self-service storage facilities: lien sales. Revises the advertising requirement of lien sales in the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act. Existing law requires publication of a lien sale for two consecutive weeks in a print newspaper. This bill provides an alternative: it permits an operator to advertise a lien sale once in a print newspaper and once on any publicly accessible internet website that customarily conducts or advertises online auctions or sales. An act to amend Section 21707 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.

• AB 546, Villapudua. Alcoholic beverages: advertising and brandy tastings. This bill expands and clarifies an existing tied-house restriction that prohibits alcohol licensees from, among other things, paying, crediting, or compensating a retailer for advertising, display, or distribution service in connection with the advertising and sale of alcoholic beverages. Additionally, the bill clarifies that specified alcohol licensees may sell customized interior signs to retailers at a price not less than current market value. Finally, the bill removes a current prohibition that prohibits a brandy manufacturer from conducting tastings of brandy in the form of a cocktail or a mixed drink. An act to amend Sections 23363.3, 25503, and 25611.1 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• AB 623, Chen. Cannabis: THC testing variances. This bill requires the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) to establish regulations to adjust testing variances for edible Cannabis products that include less than five milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in total. An act to amend Section 26100 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to Cannabis.

• AB 690, Chen. Legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants. This bill extends the operation of the provisions of law regulating legal document assistants (LDAs) and unlawful detainer assistants (UDAs) from January 1, 2024, to January 1, 2030, and makes various other technical and nonsubstantive changes. An act to amend Section 6401.7 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.

• AB 783, Ting. Business licenses: single-user restrooms. Requires cities, counties, and cities and counties to notify applicants for a business license or permit in writing of the requirement that single-user toilet facilities must be identified as all- gender toilet facilities. An act to add Section 16000.2 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to restrooms.

• AB 840, Addis. Tied-house exceptions: advertising. This bill authorizes specified alcoholic beverage licensees to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale licensee that is the owner, manager, or major tenant at various facilities situated on California State University (CSU) campuses and three facilities located at St. Mary's College of California, as specified. Additionally, would expand the exception applicable to a motorsports entertainment complex located in the County of San Bernardino, by reducing the minimum fixed seating capacity from 50,000 to 25,000. An act to amend Section 25503.6 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• AB 853, Maienschein. Retail grocery stores and retail drug stores: acquisition: notice to Attorney General. Requires parties engaging in the transfer or acquisition of retail grocery stores to provide notice to the Attorney General. An act to add Part 14 (commencing with Section 14700) to Division 3 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code, relating to retail grocery stores and retail drug stores.

• AB 878, Pellerin. Business filings: fictitious business names. This bill makes various updates to requirements for Fictitious Business Name (FBN) statement filings. An act to amend Sections 17913, 17919, 17920, 17922, and 17923 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.

• AB 883, Mathis. Business licenses: United States Department of Defense SkillBridge program. This bill requires a licensing program within the Department of Consumer Affairs, after July 1, 2024, to expedite, and authorizes the program to assist with, the initial licensure process for an applicant who supplies satisfactory evidence they are an active duty member of a regular component of the Armed Forces of the United States enrolled in the United States Department of Defense SkillBridge program. An act to amend Section 115.4 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business licenses.

• AB 993, Blanca Rubio. Cannabis Task Force. This bill adds a representative from the Civil Rights Department (CRD) and the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) to the existing Task Force on State and Local Regulation of Commercial Cannabis Activity (Task Force). An act to amend Section 26203 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to Cannabis.

• AB 1013, Lowenthal. On-sale general public premises: drug testing devices. This bill requires on-sale general public premises (Type 48 - Bar, Night Club) licensees to offer for sale to their customers drug testing devices at a cost not to exceed a reasonable amount based on the wholesale cost of those devices. A Type 48 licensee shall not be held liable for a defective test or inaccurate test result, including, but not limited to, a false positive or false negative test result. An act to add and repeal Section 25624 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• AB 1027, Petrie-Norris. Social media platforms: drug safety policies. Places various requirements on social media companies' and social media platforms' handling of content related to controlled substances. An act to amend Sections 22677 and 22945 of, and to add and repeal Sections 22945.7 and 22945.9 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to social media platforms.

• AB 1059, Friedman. Product safety: consumer products: textile fiberglass and covered flame retardant chemicals. Prohibits a person from manufacturing, selling, offering, or distributing in commerce any juvenile product, mattress, or upholstered furniture that contains textile fiberglass, and restricts the use of flame retardant chemicals in adult mattresses, as specified. An act to amend Sections 19101 and 19103 of, and to add Section 19101.5 to, the Business and Professions Code, relating to product safety.

• AB 1074, Alanis. Horse racing. Provides if the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) does not license a thoroughbred race meet at a racetrack (Golden Gate Fields) located in the cities of Berkeley and Albany after July 1, 2024, and no live horse racing is being conducted in the northern zone, this bill would deem a thoroughbred racing association or racing fair in the southern or central zone, as specified, to be operating in the northern zone for the purpose of conducting all permissible forms of wagering in the northern zone and making and receiving required distributions from those wagers. Additionally, this bill would permit a fair in the County of Stanislaus, with the approval of the Department of Food and Agriculture and the authorization of the CHRB, to operate one satellite wagering facility within the boundaries of the fair, under the same conditions as apply in the Counties of Kern and Shasta. An act to amend Sections 19531 and 19605.52 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to horse racing.

• AB 1076, Bauer-Kahan. Contracts in restraint of trade: noncompete agreements. Codifies existing case law by specifying that the prohibition on noncompete agreements is to be broadly construed to void noncompete agreements or clauses in the employment context that do not satisfy specified exceptions. Additionally provides that a violation of the prohibition on noncompete agreements in employment constitutes unfair competition. An act to amend Section 16600 of, and to add Section 16600.1 to, the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.

• AB 1088, Blanca Rubio. Licensed craft distillers: direct shipping. This bill extends a current exemption that allows a licensed craft distiller to directly ship distilled spirits manufactured by the licensee to a consumer from January 1, 2024, to January 1, 2025. An act to amend Section 23504.5 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• AB 1116, Grayson. Money Transmission Act. Makes assorted changes to the California Money Transmission Act (CA MTA) and requires licensees to comply with these new or modified provisions beginning on January 1, 2025. An act to amend Sections 2002, 2003, 2010, 2039, 2082, 2083, and 2084 of, to add Sections 2125 and 2127 to, and to repeal and add Section 2040 of, the Financial Code, relating to financial institutions.

• AB 1126, Lackey. Cannabis: citation and fine. Specifically provides that the unlicensed use of the Cannabis universal symbol is a violation of the Medicinal and Adult Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) and empowers the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) to seize unlicensed Cannabis products bearing the universal symbol as contraband. An act to add Section 26031.6 to the Business and Professions Code, and to amend Section 34016 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to Cannabis.

• AB 1136, Haney. State Athletic Commission: mixed martial arts: retirement benefit. Requires the California State Athletic Commission to establish a retirement benefit fund for licensed martial artists who engage in mixed martial arts (MMA) contests in California and requires the Commission to establish the method by which the benefit will be financed. An act to add Article 17 (commencing with Section 18888) to Chapter 2 of Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business, and making an appropriation therefor.

• AB 1171, Blanca Rubio. Cannabis: private right of action. Authorizes a person licensed under the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) to bring an action in superior court against a person engaging in commercial Cannabis activity without a license, as specified. An act to add Section 26038.1 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to Cannabis.

• AB 1175, Quirk-Silva. Outdoor advertising displays: redevelopment agency project areas. This bill extends until January 1, 2026, the period of time during which an advertising display that was in operation as of December 31, 2022 and located within the boundaries of a former redevelopment agency (RDA) project may continue to be remain, under provisions that permit such signs to be treated as an on-premises display, as specified. Under current law the advertising display could remain only until January 1, 2023. An act to amend Section 5273 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to outdoor advertising.

• AB 1204, Holden. Contractors: contracts: restrictions. This bill prohibits a licensed specialty contractor from subcontracting with two or more contractors in the same classification, on the same jobsite, unless the subcontractor has employees who perform the work in the relevant classification, as specified. An act to add Section 7035 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to contractors.

• AB 1217, Gabriel. Business pandemic relief. This bill extends, among other things, until July 1, 2026 the authority of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to permit licensees to exercise license privileges in an expanded license area authorized pursuant to a COVID-19 Temporary Catering Authorization approved in accordance with the Fourth Notice of Regulatory Relief issued by the department on May 15, 2020. A COVID-19 Temporary Catering Authorization authorizes the on-sale consumption of those alcoholic beverages for which the licensee has on-sale privileges on property adjacent to the licensed premises, under the control of the licensee. An act to amend Section 25750.5 of the Business and Professions Code, to amend Section 65907 of the Government Code, and to amend Section 114067 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to business pandemic relief.

• AB 1244, Holden. Private security services and private investigators: qualified managers. Beginning January 1, 2025, requires a qualified manager (QM) of certain Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS) regulated entities to hold a current and valid QM certificate; establishes requirements for renewing a QM certificate; establishes fees related to a QM certificate; and outlines specified QM-certificate display requirements. An act to amend Sections 7529, 7542, 7542.3, 7542.4, 7542.6, and 7583.1 of, to amend, repeal, and add Sections 7512.7, 7535, 7536, 7542.2, 7558, 7559, 7559.5, 7570, 7580.7, 7582.21, 7582.22, 7586, 7586.3, 7586.4, and 7588 of, and to add Section 7525.2 to, the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.

• AB 1262, Berman. Professional fiduciaries. Extends the sunset date for the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau (Bureau) until January 1, 2028 and makes additional technical changes, statutory improvements, and policy reforms in response to issues raised during the Bureau's sunset review oversight process. An act to amend Sections 146, 6510, 6511, 6530, 6532, 6534, 6541.1, and 6542 of, and to add Sections 6543, 6561.5, 6562.5, and 6581.1 to, the Business and Professions Code, relating to professional fiduciaries.

• AB 1271, Gipson. Gambling Control Act: licenses. This bill recasts provisions relating to key employees working at different gambling establishments, as specified. This bill also authorizes the California Gambling Control Commission (CGCC) to adopt regulations, for any applicant who possesses a state gambling license in good standing, as specified. Additionally, this bill provides that a work permit entitles the holder to work for any gambling enterprise, as specified. An act to amend Sections 19851, 19852, 19876, 19904, and 19912 of, and to repeal and add Section 19854 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to gambling.

• AB 1294, Boerner. Tied-house restrictions: advertising exceptions: County of Kings. This bill authorizes specified licensees to sponsor events promoted by, and purchase advertising space and time from or on behalf of, a company that owns a facility that includes a wave basin located in the County of Kings (Surf Ranch) in connection with activities conducted on the premises of a permanent retail licensee located at the wave basin facility, as specified. An act to add Section 25503.62 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• AB 1304, Papan. Weights and measures: inspection fees. Increases certain permissible registration fees that a County Board of Supervisors may charge to fund the operations of the County Sealer of Weights and Measures. An act to amend Sections 12240 and 12246 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to weights and measures.

• AB 1312, Committee on Banking and Finance. Financial transactions. This bill corrects erroneous cross-references in several provisions related to financial transactions. An act to amend Section 1788.18 of the Civil Code, and to amend Sections 1674 and 22169 of the Financial Code, relating to financial transactions.

• AB 1415, Santiago. Outdoor advertising: City of Los Angeles. This bill would expand the geographic areas in the City of Los Angeles that are subject to an exemption from the Outdoor Advertising Act (OAA) for advertising displays that meet specified conditions. An act to amend Section 5272.2 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to outdoor advertising.

• AB 1448, Wallis. Cannabis: enforcement by local jurisdictions. Redirects specified portions of civil penalties collected for unlicensed commercial Cannabis activity from the General Fund to the treasurers of localities that brought the action for the penalties. An act to amend Section 26038 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to Cannabis.

• AB 1458, Ta. Common interest developments: association governance: member election. Authorizes a lower quorum requirement for common interest development (CID) association elections of directors under specified circumstances. An act to amend Section 5115 of the Civil Code, and to amend Section 7512 of the Corporations Code, relating to common interest developments. • AB 1560, Flora. Crematories: change in ownership. This bill provides a new regulatory process to transfer ownership of a licensed crematory to a new owner, as specified. An act to amend Sections 7712.1 and 7712.9 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations, and making an appropriation therefor.

• AB 1587, Ting. Financial transactions: firearms merchants: merchant category code. Requires financial institutions that facilitate payment card transactions to implement a merchant category code (MCC) for firearms merchants. An act to add Division 26 (commencing with Section 110000) to the Financial Code, relating to financial transactions.

• AB 1646, Stephanie Nguyen. Physicians and surgeons: postgraduate training: guest rotations. Authorizes out-of-state medical residents who are participating in guest rotations in approved postgraduate training programs in California or at training sites affiliated with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited programs to practice medicine for up to 90 days and receive compensation without obtaining a postgraduate training license. An act to amend Section 2065 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.

• AB 1668, Joe Patterson. Alcoholic beverages: licenses: County of Placer. This bill authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to issue no more than a total of 10 additional new original on-sale general licenses for bona fide public eating places in the County of Placer. The bill would prohibit the department from issuing more than four of these licenses per year. The bill would prohibit transferring the new licenses out of the county or sold for a price greater than the original fee paid by the seller. An act to add Section 23826.19 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• AB 1673, Pacheco. Outdoor Advertising Act: local governmental entities: relocation. This bill, for the purpose of the Outdoor Advertising Act (OAA), clarifies the definition of the terms "relocation," "relocated display," and all related variants of the terms. It also explicitly allows the conversion of an advertising display to a message center (e.g. an advertising display which allows changeable ads rather than a static display). An act to amend Section 5443 of, and to add Section 5443.1 to, the Business and Professions Code, relating to outdoor advertising displays.

• AB 1703, Wendy Carrillo. State Athletic Commission: boxing. This bill increases the cap on the gate fee collected by the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC or Commission) for combat sporting events held in the state. An act to amend Section 18824 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.

• AB 1704, Santiago. Alcoholic beverage licenses. This bill requires the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to conduct priority drawings through a live video feed. Additionally, this bill allows a licensed winegrower to sell spirits of wine it produces to a distilled spirits manufacturer. Additionally, the bill clarifies that a brewpub-restaurant license that was first issued on or before December 31, 2019 can be exchanged for a bona fide public eating place license regardless of whether the original brewpub- restaurant license was transferred after the December 31, 2019 date. An act to amend Sections 23015, 23358, 23961, and 24072.3 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• SB 33, Glazer. Commercial financing: disclosures. This bill removes a sunset provision that applies to a requirement to disclose the cost of a commercial financing transaction expressed as an annualized rate. The requirement is scheduled to sunset on January 1, 2024. By removing the sunset, this bill requires commercial financing providers to provide the specified disclosure indefinitely. An act to amend Section 22804 of, to amend and repeal Sections 22802 and 22803 of, and to add Section 22806 to, the Financial Code, relating to commercial financing.

• SB 51, Bradford. Cannabis provisional licenses: local equity applicants. This bill authorizes the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC), until January 1, 2031, to issue a provisional license to a local equity applicant, as defined, for retailer activities if specified conditions are met. An act to amend Section 26050.2 of, and to add Section 26050.5 to, the Business and Professions Code, relating to Cannabis.

• SB 54, Skinner. Venture capital companies: reporting. This bill requires a venture capital company to report annually to the Civil Rights Department (CRD) on its funding determinations related to companies primarily founded by diverse founding team members. An act to add Chapter 40 (commencing with Section 22949.85) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, and to amend Section 12907 of the Government Code, relating to professions and vocations.

• SB 60, Umberg. Social media platforms: controlled substances: order to remove. This bill allows a person to seek a court order to require a social media platform, as defined, to remove content that includes an offer to transport, import into this state, sell, furnish, administer, or give away specified controlled substances in violation of state law. An act to add Section 22945.5 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to social media platforms.

• SB 76, Wiener. Alcoholic beverages: music venue license: entertainment zones: consumption. This bill authorizes specified licensees in the City and County of San Francisco to allow consumers to leave the licensed premises with open containers of alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises within an entertainment zone, as specified. In addition, this bill makes various changes to the music venue license, as specified. An act to amend Sections 23357, 23358, 23396, and 23552 of, to add Section 23039.5 to, and to add Article 5 (commencing with Section 25690) to Chapter 16 of Division 9 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• SB 95, Roth. Commercial transactions. Revises and recasts California's version of the Uniform Commercial Code to reflect recent updates developed by the Uniform Law Commission related to the treatment of digital assets. An act to amend Sections 1201, 1204, 1301, 1306, 2102, 2106, 2201, 2202, 2205, 2209, 3104, 3105, 3401, 3604, 5104, 5116, 7102, 7106, 8102, 8103, 8106, 8110, 8303, 9102, 9104, 9105, 9203, 9204, 9207, 9208, 9209, 9210, 9301, 9304, 9305, 9310, 9312, 9313, 9314, 9316, 9317, 9323, 9324, 9330, 9331, 9332, 9334, 9341, 9404, 9406, 9408, 9509, 9513, 9601, 9605, 9608, 9611, 9613, 9614, 9615, 9616, 9619, 9620, 9621, 9624, 9628, 10102, 10103, 10107, 10201, 10202, 10205, 10208, 11103, 11201, 11202, 11203, 11207, 11208, 11210, 11211, and 11305 of, to add Sections 9105.1, 9107.1, 9107.2, 9306.1, 9306.2, 9314.1, and 9326.1 to, and to add Division 12 (commencing with Section 12101) and Division 17 (commencing with Section 17101) to, the Commercial Code, relating to commercial transactions.

• SB 244, Eggman. Right to Repair Act. This bill requires manufacturers of an electronic or appliance product, as defined, with a wholesale price to the retailer of not less than $50 to make available, on fair and reasonable terms, sufficient service documentation and prescribed functional parts and tools to owners of the product, service and repair facilities, and service dealers for specified timeframes. This bill provides that a city, a county, a city and county, or the state may bring an action in superior court to impose civil liability on a person or entity that knowingly, or reasonably should have known that it violated, these provisions as provided. An act to amend and renumber the heading of Chapter 8.6 (commencing with Section 42490) of, and to add Chapter 8.6 (commencing with Section 42488) to, Part 3 of Division 30 of, the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste management.

• SB 247, Wilk. Alcoholic beverages: licensing exemptions: barbering and cosmetology services. This bill expands the exception allowing beer or wine without a Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) license or permit at a beauty salon or barber shop service to any service provided by an establishment subject to regulation by the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology (BBC). An act to amend Section 23399.5 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• SB 269, Laird. Alcoholic beverages: licensed premises: retail sales and consumption. This bill authorizes the owner of a craft distilled spirits manufacturer's license or brandy manufacturer's license to the existing authorization allowing the holder of a beer manufacturer's license or winegrower's license, if such licenses are held in combination for single a premise, to have any authorized alcoholic beverages throughout the premises at the same time and maintain a designated area upon the premises where retail sales and consumption may occur. An act to amend Section 25607 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• SB 296, Dodd. In-vehicle cameras. This bill requires the disclosure of in-vehicle cameras installed by the manufacturer and places restrictions on what can be done with video recordings from such cameras and where such recordings can be retained. The bill prohibits compelling an entity to build specific features for the purpose of allowing the monitoring of communications. An act to add Chapter 36 (commencing with Section 22948.50) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.

• SB 372, Menjivar. Department of Consumer Affairs: licensee and registrant records: name and gender changes. This bill requires a licensing entity within the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) to update licensee records if it receives government-issued documentation demonstrating that the individual's legal name or gender has changed. An act to add Section 27.5 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.

• SB 384, Bradford. Barbering and cosmetology. Requires the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology (BBC) to establish a remedial education program, in lieu of a first offense of a health and safety violation. An act to amend Section 7407.1 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to barbering and cosmetology.

• SB 392, Bradford. Tied-house restrictions: advertising exceptions: City of Inglewood. This bill authorizes specified licensees to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on-sale licensee that is the owner, manager, or major tenant of a fully enclosed arena with a seating capacity of at least 18,000 seats located in the City of Inglewood (Intuit Dome), as specified. An act to amend Section 25503.6 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• SB 401, Limón. Digital financial asset transaction kiosks. This bill provides for the regulation of digital financial asset transaction kiosks, including limits on the total amount of transactions in a day, fee limitations, and a requirement to provide a receipt for every transaction. An act to add Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 3901) to Division 1.25 of the Financial Code, relating to financial institutions.

• SB 446, Wilk. Nonprofit and cooperative corporations: ratification or validation of noncompliant corporate actions. This bill conforms how a nonprofit corporation or cooperative corporation can ratify or validate an otherwise lawful non-compliant corporate action to such processes established for a for-profit corporation under the General Corporation Law. Specifically, this bill provides a mechanism by which a nonprofit or cooperative corporation can ratify, through the corporation's board of directors and members, or validate, upon the filing of a petition in superior court, the retroactive correction of a past corporate action that is otherwise lawful, but not in compliance with either the Nonprofit Corporation Law or Cooperative Corporation Law, respectively, or the corporation's bylaws. An act to amend Sections 5008 and 12214 of, and to add Sections 5017 and 12220.5 to, the Corporations Code, relating to corporations.

• SB 498, Gonzalez. Alcoholic beverage control: violations. This bill modifies guidelines for calculating the applicable amount of the offer in compromise the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) may make to a licensee in lieu of license suspension. Additionally, this bill authorizes ABC to consider as a factor, in determining the level of discipline for specified provisions relating to the sale of alcohol, whether there is a subsequent death or great bodily injury to the individual provided the alcoholic beverage or to any other person. An act to amend Sections 23095 and 25658 of, and to add Section 24200.8 to, the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• SB 540, Laird. Cannabis and Cannabis products: health warnings. This bill requires the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC), in consultation with the Department of Public Health (DPH), on or before January 1, 2025, to create a brochure with information about steps for the safer use of Cannabis; requires the DCC to reevaluate regulations pertaining to labeling and packaging requirements for Cannabis and Cannabis products before July 1, 2025; and, requires the DCC to reevaluate regulations for labeling and packaging requirements on or before January 1, 2030, and every five years thereafter, as specified. An act to add Sections 26070.3 and 26121 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to Cannabis.

• SB 601, McGuire. Professions and vocations: contractors: home improvement contracts: prohibited business practices: limitation of actions. An act to amend Section 7159.5 of the Business and Professions Code, and to amend Section 802 of the Penal Code, relating to professions and vocations.

• SB 622, Allen. Cannabis regulation: plant identification program: unique identifier. This bill updates the requirement under the Department of Cannabis Control's (DCC) unique identifier (UI) program that a Cannabis plant have a UI attached at the base of each plant and instead requires the UI to be recorder in a manner as determined by the DCC through regulation. An act to amend Section 26069 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to Cannabis.

• SB 630, Dodd. Contractors State License Board: regulation of contractors. This bill authorizes the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) to require every applicant, registrant, and licensee to provide a valid email address and to automatically revoke a license for failure to fully comply with the terms and conditions of probation. This bill also makes confidential email addresses provided to CSLB. An act to amend Section 7095 of, and to add Section 7083.2 to, the Business and Professions Code, relating to businesses and professions.

• SB 699, Caballero. Contracts in restraint of trade. Strengthens California's restraint of trade prohibitions by clarifying, among other things, that any contract that is void under California's restraint of trade law is unenforceable regardless of where and when the contract was signed.

• SB 669, Cortese. Veterinarians: veterinarian-client-patient relationship. This bill authorizes a registered veterinary technician (RVT) to establish a veterinarian client patient relationship (VCPR) under the direct supervision of a veterinarian for purposes of administering preventive or prophylactic vaccines or medications to control or eradicate internal or external parasites, as specified. An act to amend Section 4840 of, and to add Section 4826.7 to, the Business and Professions Code, relating to veterinary medicine.

• SB 699, Caballero. Contracts in restraint of trade. Strengthens California's restraint of trade prohibitions by clarifying, among other things, that any contract that is void under California's restraint of trade law is unenforceable regardless of where and when the contract was signed. An act to add Section 16600.5 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to business.

• SB 787, Dahle. Number of licensed premises: County of Nevada. This bill authorizes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to issue up to 10 additional new original on-sale general licenses for bona fide public eating places in the County of Nevada, but no more than four licenses per year. The new license cannot be transferred out of the county or sold for a price greater than the original fee paid by the seller. An act to add Section 23826.18 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• SB 788, Ashby. Beer manufacturers: cider and perry. This bill repeals the requirement that a licensed beer manufacturer produce more than 60,000 barrels of beer a year to be authorized to manufacture cider or perry and sell the beverages to a licensee authorized to sell wine. An act to amend Section 23357 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages.

• SB 813, Roth. Structural Pest Control Board. Extends the sunset date for the Structural Pest Control Board (SPCB) by four years to January 1, 2028. An act to amend Sections 8520 and 8528 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to structural pest control.

• SB 814, Roth. Household goods and services. An act to amend Sections 9801, 9810, 9812, 9812.5, 9814, 9814.5, 9830.5, 9832.5, 9847.5, 9849, 9851, 9853, 9855, 9855.9, 9860, 9862.5, 9863, 9870, 9871, 9872, 9873, 9874, 19002, 19063, 19064, 19094, 19174, 19211, 19212, 19214, 19225.5, 19229, and 19239 of, to amend, repeal, and add Section 205 of, and to add and repeal Sections 9874.5, 19174.5, 19229.5 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.

• SB 816, Roth. Professions and vocations. Makes various changes stemming from prior sunset review oversight efforts, including codifying the California Interior Design Council (CCIDC) as the certifying organization for the profession, deletes conflicting language related to the veterinary assistant controlled substance permit (VACSP) issued by the Veterinary Medical Board (VMB), and makes a clarifying change to educational institutions approval by the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians (BVNPT). Additionally, this bill increases various licensing fees imposed by the Board of Psychology (BOP), Board of Pharmacy, Board of Accountancy (BOA), and the Landscape Architects Technical Committee (LATC). An act to amend Sections 2881.2, 2987, 2988, 4531.1, 4836.2, 5134, 5681, 5800, 5801, 5801.1, 5802, 5803, 5804, 5805, 5807, 5812, 12703.1, 12704, and 12709 of, to amend, renumber, and add Section 5811.1 of, and to amend, repeal, and add Sections 4119.01, 4119.11, 4128.2, 4161, 4202.5, 4210, and 4400 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations, and making an appropriation therefor.

• SB 833, McGuire. Cannabis licensing: cultivation licenses: changing license type: inactive status. This bill requires the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC), no later than March 1, 2024, to begin allowing cultivators to select a smaller license type or place their license in inactive status, as specified. An act to add Section 26061.5 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to Cannabis.

• SB 844, Jones. Alcoholic beverage control: retail license transfers and beer returns. This bill clarifies that an alcohol licensee who transfers an alcoholic beverage license to a premise that is under construction must follow certain notification requirements unless the construction is taking place on the premise of the existing license. Additionally, this bill revises the definition of "season brand of beer" in the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Act to also mean a brand of beer that is brewed by a manufacturer to recognize a season or holiday, as specified. An act to amend Sections 23104.2 and 24044 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to alcoholic beverages, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

• SB 884, Committee on Governmental Organization. Gambling Control Act. This bill revises the definitions of "gambling enterprise employee" and "key employee" under the Gambling Control Act (Act). Specifically, this bill revises these definitions to exclude a person employed solely to serve or prepare food or beverages, or solely to supervise such an employee, if the employee and supervisor perform duties only in areas of the establishment in which gambling is not "conducted," instead of areas of the establishment in which gambling is not "authorized." An act to amend Section 19805 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to gambling.

• SB 887, Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. Consumer affairs. An act to amend Sections 115.8, 472.4, 2530.3, 2532, 2532.5, 2535.4, 2537.3, 2538.20, 2538.21, 2538.27, 2538.28, 2538.30, 2538.32, 2538.33, 2538.34, 2538.36, 2538.40, 2538.49, 2538.50, 2538.51, 2538.56, 2539.1, 2539.6, 2710, 2728, 2732, 2732.1, 2733, 2734, 2736, 2746.8, 2759, 2760, 2761, 2762, 2765, 2770.11, 2770.7, 2780, 2785.6, 2800, 2811, 2811.5, 2816, 2826, 2828, 2830.6, 2833, 2836, 2838.1, 2838.2, 2915.4, 2915.5, 4427.8, 4846, 4861, 4875.3, 4989.14, 5017.1, 5017.5, 5022, 5028, 5037, 5051, 5053, 5057, 5058.2, 5058.3, 5058.4, 5060, 5063.3, 5070.7, 5076, 5082.4, 5094, 5096.20, 5096.21, 5103.5, 5104, 5107, 5121, 5134, 5550.3, 10471, and 21638.5 of, to amend, repeal, and add Section 7685.3 of, to add Section 4990.13 to, and to repeal Sections 2738, 5029, and 5092.1 of, the Business and Professions Code, and to amend Sections 94874.8, 94874.9, 94878, 94897, 94902, 94905, 94910, 94910.5, 94911, 94913, 94941, 94942, and 94949.73 of the Education Code, relating to consumer affairs.