20250SB__045696CHP INTRODUCED 2025-02-19 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-04-02 PASSED_ASSEMBLY 2025-09-04 PASSED_SENATE 2025-06-02 ENROLLED 2025-09-08 CHAPTERED 2025-10-13 APPROVED 2025-10-13 FILED 2025-10-13 SB CHP CHP Introduced by Senator Ashby (Coauthor: Senator Laird) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Ahrens, Berman, Jeff Gonzalez, Haney, Jackson, McKinnor, and Pellerin) LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Ashby COAUTHOR SENATE Laird COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Ahrens COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Berman COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Jeff Gonzalez COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Haney COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Jackson COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY McKinnor COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Pellerin

An act to add

Section to the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations. professions and vocations Contractors: exemptions: muralists. Existing law, the Contractors State License Law, establishes the Contractors State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of contractors. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business, or act in the capacity, of a contractor without a license, unless exempted.

Existing law exempts from the Contractors State License Law, among other things, a nonprofit corporation providing assistance to an owner, as specified. This bill would exempt from that law an artist who draws, paints, applies, executes, restores, or conserves a mural, as defined, pursuant to an agreement with a person who could legally authorize the work. 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 is added to the Business and Professions Code , to read: 7050. (

a) This

chapter does not apply to an artist who draws, paints, applies, executes, restores, or conserves a mural pursuant to an agreement with a person who could legally authorize the work. (

b) For purposes of this section, ”mural” means a unique work of fine art that is protected by copyright, trademark, label, or patent and that is drawn or painted by hand directly onto interior or exterior walls or ceilings, fixtures, or other appurtenances of a building or structure. “Mural” does not include painted wall signs.