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AB 1147 Assembly Bill-Bill Analysis Page 29 of 35 AB 1904 (Bonilla, 2014) , requires a certified massage therapist or certified massage practitioner to notify CAMTC of his or her primary email address, if any, and notify the CAMTC within 30 days of any change to the primary email address. ( Status AB 1904 is pending a hearing in this Committee.) 6.Prior Related Legislation. AB 294 (Negrete-McLeod, Chapter 695, Statutes of 2010) changed the sunset dates on various boards, bureaus and programs within the Department of Consumer Affairs, including CAMTC, from 2016 to 2015. AB 285 (Correa, Chapter 149, Statutes of 2011) provided that any person who provides a certificate, diploma or other document, or otherwise affirms that a person has received instruction in massage therapy, knowing that the person has not received such training, is guilty or a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of $2,500 or imprisonment in county jail for up to one year, or both. AB 1822 (Swanson, 2010) would have added two additional members to the CAMTC, each one selected by the California Police Chiefs Association and the California State Sheriffs' Association, respectively, unless those entities chose not to do so. ( Status AB 1822 was vetoed by the Governor.) 7.Arguments in Support. The League of California Cities (League) is AB 1147 Page 39 in support of this measure as it would return the tools to local governments that would allow them to close down businesses masquerading as massage establishments that are really offering illicit services, and in some cases engaging in human trafficking. According to the League, they have been very involved in this issue and have been asking for three issues to be addressed: (1) that the CAMTC be replaced with a board or commission; (2) that businesses that employ massage professionals be regulated and local governments be allowed to apply reasonable regulations to massage businesses; and (3) local governments be authorized to recoup their costs of protecting the public. The League believes that this bill addresses all of the concerns raised by the League. As stated by the League, "More importantly the bill returns land use control back to the cities and counties as well as explicitly authorizes local governments to adopt ordinances to require massage establishments to comply with reasonable health and safety requirements and abide by hours of operation. while AB 1147 does not replace CAMTC with a board or commission, it does reconstitute the CAMTC's board and adds public members as well as a position for a police chief. Finally, the bill would authorize jurisdictions to collect regulatory fees in accordance to Proposition 26 as well as pay business license taxes." The Los Angeles County Division of the League of Cities representing 86 cities, the Redwood Empire Division of the League of Cities , the Ventura Council of Governments , the San Diego County Division of the League of Cities South Bay Cities Council of Governments North County Lifeline_ and many other individual cities and counties and law enforcement are also in support for same reasons as stated above. Most also complain that under the current law pertaining to massage therapy they have experienced a substantial increase in the number of massage establishments and that these establishment are using the law to avoid oversight and regulation by local cities to operate illicit massage businesses. They indicate that by giving cities back local land use control and allowing them to enact ordinances that would require a massage establishment to obtain a license, permit or other authorization as long as the license, permit or other authorization is required of any other individual or http://www,Ieg info.ca.gov/p0/13-14/b i l I/asm/ab_1 101-1 150/ab_1147_cfa_20140620_111115_sen_comm.html 7/3/2014