CR BOARD PROPOSES FEE CHANGE
Posted on May 27th, 2008 at 9:18 am, by Tami BThe CR Board is proposing to change fees for the CSR exam. Title 16, California Code of Regulations, Section 2450, currently sets the fee for an examination at $75 for each separate part for each administration. They propose to change it to set the fee for filing an application to $40 for each administration.
They are also proposing to amend the section to incorporate for the current fees that they are already charging for initial certificate, $100; renewal remains at $100; delinquency fee for renewal, $50; duplicate certificate, $5; and reduces the penalty fee for failure to notify Board of a change of name or address from $50 to $20.
CCR Section 2451 pertains to due dates of fees. They propose to add a new subsection to establish the due date of the delinquency fee for certificate renewal if the certificate is not renewed within 30 days after the date that it expired.
The hearing date is June 3, 2008, at 1:00 p.m. If you would like to comment, you can do so orally at the hearing or submit your written statement to the Board before June 3, 2008. For further information regarding these changes, please go to the CR Board website at www.courtreportersboard.ca.gov.
With fuel prices at $4 and above, and just the general cost of living skyrocketing, it’s nice that the CR Board’s rates are not rising and that applicant’s for the CSR exam are actually going to be paying less! Now if we could only get an increase in transcript rates!
Let us know what you think!
May 27th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Thanks for the info. I noticed they are giving the exam a lot more now. That is great for students. I remember (barely) way back when we were only allowed to take the test twice a year.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Yeah, I remember that too! It was so stressful thinking you had to wait six months if you didn’t pass.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I remember at the CR exam, they filed us into a room. We had to walk down a long corridor in single file. I felt like I was going to face the firing squad or something.
There were seven or eight large groups taking the test in those days. It went on all day. I was group number one. The gal next to me was hitting the machine so hard, I thought it was going to fall over. You had to really be in terrific steno-shape to manage those manual machines.
I flunked the machine portion the first time. That made the second time I took it that much more stressful. The stress would have been greatly reduced if we had had more opportunities to take the test! So I’m glad to hear the test will be given more often.