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Committee briefed on pending bills affecting exams, prioritization and emergency waivers
Summary
Staff summarized several pending bills — AB 667 (exam interpreters), AB 742 (applicant prioritization for descendants of enslaved people), SB 470 (teleconference/Bagley‑Keene flexibility), and SB 641 (emergency waivers) — and described potential operational and legal implications for LATC.
Department of Consumer Affairs staff briefed the Landscape Architects Technical Committee on multiple pending legislative measures that could affect licensing exams, applicant prioritization and emergency authority.
Laura Zuniga summarized the bills in the meeting packet. AB 667 (in Assembly Appropriations on the suspense file) would require an option for applicants who cannot read, speak or write English to use an interpreter at no cost for verbal/oral components of state‑administered exams; the bill, as introduced, originally applied to national examinations as well but has since been narrowed to explicitly cover the…
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