State and Consumer Services
1111 Department of Consumer Affairs, Bureaus

The Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) is responsible for promoting and protecting the interests of millions of California consumers by serving as a guardian and advocate for their health, safety, and economic well-being and by promoting legal and ethical standards of professional conduct. The Department helps to promote good business practices and to ensure that California's consumers receive quality services by establishing minimal competency standards for more than 240 classifications involving approximately 2.5 million professionals. The Department is also an important advocate on consumer and business issues. More.....

PROGRAMS Back to Top
The following table presents total proposed budget year personnel years and expenditures for each budgeted program area. These expenditures include all funding sources that support the state agency's programs.
Code Program
 Proposed
2011-12*
Personnel
Years
Dollars
23 Arbitration Certification Program
7.6
$1,107
24 Hearing Aid Dispensers Bureau
-
-
25 Bureau of Security and Investigative Services
50.7
11,865
27 Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education
55.8
9,368
28 Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation
41.9
7,781
31 Bureau of Automotive Repair
600.2
195,798
34 Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation
-
-
35.02 Distributed Consumer Affairs Administration
-
-71,088
35.10 Consumer Affairs Administration
609.4
71,919
37 Telephone Medical Advice Services Bureau
0.9
148
38 Cemetery and Funeral Bureau
18.5
4,149
39 Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine
-
-
89 Professional Fiduciaries Bureau
1.6
308
Totals, Personnel Years and Expenditures (excluding Infrastructure)
1,386.6
$231,355
 
 Infrastructure Expenditures
-
-
Totals, Personnel Years and All Expenditures
1,386.6
$231,355

Refer to the Program Descriptions for a description of programs operated by this state agency.

Refer to the 3-Yr Expenditures & Personnel Years for expenditures, personnel years, and funding detail.
PRINTABLE BUDGET DOCUMENTS Back to Top
The following identifies budget documents for this state agency that are available in a printable (pdf) format.

Entire Department of Consumer Affairs, Bureaus Budget (pdf * - 57K) in pdf format.
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of all budget information for this state agency. Note: Along with other information, this document includes the documents listed below.

 Fund Condition Statements ONLY (pdf * - 22K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the fund condition statements for each fund administered by this state agency.

 Detail of Appropriations and Adjustments ONLY (pdf * - 11K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the detail of appropriations and adjustments for this state agency.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Back to Top
Legal Citations and Authority
Includes the legal citations (state statutes, federal statutes, and court orders) for operation of department programs and activities.