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On September 30, 2018, the Governor signed Assembly Bill 2138, which primarily helps many license applicants with criminal records get professional licenses. AB 2138 took effect on July 1, 2020.
After the change in the law, a plea of guilty or a verdict of guilty can only be used against a licensee or license…
In a recent contested case against the Physical Therapy Board applicant, the Board’s attorneys insisted that because a ten-year-old theft conviction was not properly disclosed on an application for licensure, our prospective Physical Therapy Aide client did not deserve a license at all. After an administrative hearing where the facts and circumstances of the conviction…
It takes years of sacrifice and hard work to become a registered nurse. In California, the Board of Registered Nursing is in charge of regulating the nursing profession, and that means scrutinizing every RN application, looking for “causes for denial.” As professional licensing attorneys, we’ve talked to thousands of nurses and helped hundreds of applicants…
On September 28, 2014, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 2396, which added language to Business and Professions Code section 480. This addition to the law provides that an individual with an expunged conviction cannot be denied a license solely because of the expunged conviction, notwithstanding any other law in the Business and Professions Code. This…
“license appeal” reconsideration “writ of mandate” “early intervention”…
Continue Reading The Rule of Diminishing Returns in License Law
The toughest part of a license application is often not the test you had to pass, or the extensive experience information you have to list, but instead is the answer to one simple question: Have you been convicted of a crime? Actually, this is not really the question the board, bureau, department or agency is…
