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AB 1341

Authors

Hoover

Subject

Contractors: discipline: building law violations.

Relating To

relating to professions and vocations.

Title

An act to amend Section 7110 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.

Last Action Dt

2025-07-02

State

Amended Senate

Status

In Committee Process

Active?

Vote Required

Majority

Appropriation

Fiscal Committee

Yes

Local Program

Substantive Changes

None

Urgency

Tax Levy

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Actions

2025-08-25		In committee: Referred to suspense file.
2025-07-02		Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-07-01		From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 30).
2025-06-11		In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-05-28		Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
2025-05-15		Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1557.)
2025-05-15		In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-05-07		Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-01		Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-04-30		From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30).
2025-04-24		Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-23		Read second time and amended.
2025-04-22		From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 22).
2025-03-25		Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
2025-03-24		Referred to Com. on B. & P.
2025-03-24		From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.
2025-02-24		Read first time.
2025-02-22		From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2025-02-21		Introduced. To print.

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Amended Senate		2025-07-02
Amended Assembly		2025-05-07
Amended Assembly		2025-04-23
Amended Assembly		2025-03-24
Introduced		2025-02-21

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								Willful or deliberate disregard and violation of the building laws of the state, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of any of the following references to or provisions of law, constitutes a cause for disciplinary action against a licensee:
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								The safety laws or labor laws or compensation insurance laws or Unemployment Insurance Code of the state.
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								The Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code).
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								Any state or local law relating to the issuance of building permits.
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Existing law, the Contractors State License Law, establishes the Contractors State License Board to license and regulate contractors. Existing law makes the willful or deliberate disregard and violation of the building laws of the state or of specified other provisions of law, including certain provisions relating to the business and practice of structural pest control, a cause for disciplinary action against a licensee. This bill would specify that “building laws of the state” includes certain prohibitions related to the practice and unlicensed practice of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, geology or geophysics, and land surveying, and, therefore, would also make a willful or deliberate disregard and violation of those specified prohibitions a cause for disciplinary action against a licensee. The bill would revise and recast the above-described provisions relating to the business and practice of structural pest control to instead be included among the “building laws of the state.”