Alex Padilla
- Democratic
Author
The Professional Engineers Act provides for the licensure and regulation of engineers and the Professional Land Surveyors' Act provides for the licensure and regulation of land surveyors by the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Existing law provides for the formation of various types of legal entities, including registered limited liability partnerships and foreign limited liability partnerships. Under existing law, a registered limited liability partnership or a foreign limited liability partnership may only be formed by persons licensed to engage in the practice of accountancy, the practice of law, or, until January 1, 2012, the practice of architecture. This bill would authorize registered limited liability partnerships and foreign limited liability partnerships to be formed by persons licensed to engage in the practice of engineering or land surveying, and would provide that one or more engineers or land surveyors are not prohibited from practicing or offering to practice, within the scope of their licensure, as a limited liability partnership if specified requirements are met. Existing law requires that every registered limited liability partnership and foreign limited liability partnership provide specified security for claims arising out of the partnership's professional practice. Under existing law, the total aggregate limit of liability under the policy or policies of insurance or the amount of security required to be provided by those partnerships providing architectural services is $100,000 multiplied by the number of licensed persons, but not less than $1,000,000 and not more than $5,000,000, as specified. This bill would also impose those security requirements on a limited liability partnership and foreign limited liability partnership providing engineering or land surveying services, except that the amount of security required to be provided would be not less than $2,000,000. This bill would specify that its provisions shall become inoperative on January 1, 2016, unless a later enacted statute, enacted prior to that date, deletes or extends that date. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Approved by Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 634, Statutes of 2010.
Enrolled. To Governor at 11:45 a.m.
Senate concurs in Assembly amendments. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4897.) To enrollment.
Urgency clause adopted.
In Senate. To unfinished business.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6504.) To Senate.
Read third time. Amended. (Page 6371.) To third reading.
Read second time. To third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.)
(Heard in committee August 12.)
Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 5989.)
Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
(Heard in committee on June 29.)
From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.)
From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
(Heard in committee on June 22.)
To Coms. on B.,P. & C.P. and JUD.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 3542.) To Assembly.
To Special Consent Calendar.
Read second time. To third reading.
From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
Set for hearing May 10.
Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3304.)
Set for hearing April 20.
From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3069.) Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Set for hearing April 5.
Re-referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
To Com. on RLS.
From print. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB1008 | HTML |
| 02/10/10 - Introduced | |
| 03/15/10 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/28/10 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/02/10 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/19/10 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/30/10 - Enrolled | |
| 09/30/10 - Chaptered |
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