HB 5054 Summary

• Allows Department of Consumer Protection to satisfy regulation publication requirements by posting regulations on its Internet website instead of requiring printed pamphlets.

• Changes charitable organization annual registration renewal deadline from five months to eleven months after the end of the organization's fiscal year.

• Increases itinerant vendor guaranty fund fee from one hundred dollars to two hundred dollars annually.

• Modifies real estate and contractor licensing renewal periods and expiration dates, and extends the reinstatement deadline for lapsed licenses from one year to two years in multiple professions.

• Makes technical updates to home improvement contractor definitions to include "services" alongside goods and clarifies that temporary permits for electronics technicians are no longer authorized.