Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 511, Sec. 70. (SB 1495) Effective January 1, 2023.
(a)The director shall adopt regulations governing the process and procedures for renewal of a license or restoration of a license to active status that shall include, but not be limited to, continuing education requirements, which shall be reported on the basis of a four-year continuing education cycle, and, for each licensee renewing on or after January 1, 2023, include at least two hours of elimination of bias training, either individually or as part of a broader course.
(b)An applicant for renewal of a license shall be required to demonstrate the applicant’s continuing fitness to hold a license prior to its renewal. Applicants shall also fulfill continuing education requirements
established pursuant to this section and shall be required to take a minimum of four hours of federal and California appraisal related statutory and regulatory law every four years.
(c)Beginning January 1, 2023, as part of the continuing education required by this section, a licensee shall complete at least one hour of instruction in cultural competency every four years.
(d)The cost of any educational course required by this section shall not be borne by any client served by a licensee.
(e)For purposes of this section, “cultural competency” means understanding and applying cultural and ethnic data to the process of providing services that includes, but is not limited to, information on the appropriate services
for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex communities, ethnic communities, and religious communities.