SB 1225: Real estate appraisers: disciplinary information: petitions.

Existing law, the Real Estate Appraisers Licensing and Certification Law, establishes the Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers for the licensure, regulation, and discipline of real estate appraisers. Existing law requires the bureau to provide on the internet prescribed information regarding the status of every license and registration issued by the bureau, including information on suspensions and revocations of licenses and registrations issued by the bureau and accusations filed relative to persons or businesses subject to licensure, registration, or regulation by the bureau.

This bill would authorize the bureau, upon petition by a licensee accompanied by a specified fee, to remove from the posting of discipline an item that has been posted on the bureaus internet website for at least 10 years and for which the licensee provides evidence of rehabilitation indicating that the notice is no longer required to prevent a credible risk to members of the public utilizing licensed activity of the licensee, except as specified. The bill would require the bureau, in evaluating a petition, to take into consideration other violations that present a credible risk to the members of the public since the posting of discipline requested for removal, as specified. The bill would authorize the bureau to develop, through regulations, the amount of the fee and the minimum information to be included in a licensees petition, including, but not limited to, a written justification and evidence of rehabilitation.

This bill would also authorize the bureau, upon petition by an immediate family member or heir of a deceased licensee that is accompanied by a specified fee, to remove from the posting of discipline an item that has been posted on the bureaus internet website with regard to the deceased licensee for any duration. The bill would authorize the bureau to develop, through regulations, the amount of the fee and the minimum information to be included in such a petition.

This bill would require the bureau to maintain a list of all licensees whose disciplinary records are altered as a result of the petition processes and to update the list and make it available to other licensing bodies, as specified.