20250AB__134195AMD INTRODUCED 2025-02-21 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-03-24 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-04-23 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-05-07 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-07-02 2025 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Member Hoover LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Hoover

An act to amend

Section of the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations. professions and vocations Contractors: discipline: building law violations. 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.” MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 7110. (

a) 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: (1)<xhtml:span class="EnSpace"/>Section or 8556.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>(2)</xhtml:p>"?>

(1) Sections 1689.5 to 1689.15, inclusive, of the Civil Code. (3)</xhtml:p>"?>

(2) The safety laws or labor laws or compensation insurance laws or Unemployment Insurance Code of the state. (4)</xhtml:p>"?>

(3) The Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with

Section 4100) of Part of Division of the Public Contract Code). (5)</xhtml:p>"?>

(4) Any provision of the Health and Safety Code or Water Code, relating to the digging, boring, or drilling of water wells. (6)</xhtml:p>"?>

(5) Any provision of

Article 2 (commencing with

Section 4216) of

Chapter 3.1 of Division of Title of the Government Code. (7)</xhtml:p>"?>

(6) Section 374.3 of the Penal Code or any substantially similar law or ordinance that is promulgated by a local government agency as defined in

Section of the Government Code. (8)</xhtml:p>"?>

(7) Any state or local law relating to the issuance of building permits. (

b) As used in this section, “building laws of the state” includes, without limitation, all of the following:

(1) Section 5536, subdivision (

c) of

Section 5536.1, and

Section 5536.4.

(2) Section 5640.

(3) Section 6787.

(4) Section 7872.

(5) Section or 8556. (5)</xhtml:p>"?>

(6) Section 8792.