California Code, Business and Professions Code - BPC § 7314

(a) The board shall keep a record of its proceedings relating to its public meetings, meetings of committees, and records relating to the issuance, refusal, renewal, suspension, and revocation of licenses.

(b) The board shall keep a registration record of each licensee containing the name, address, license number, and date issued.  This record shall also contain any facts that the applicants may have stated in their application for examination for licensure.  The board shall collect, through optional questions on a written application for a license and in an electronic application to renew a license issued pursuant to this chapter, the spoken and written language preference of each applicant.

(c) The amendments made to this section by the act adding this subdivision   1 shall become operative on July 1, 2017.