Plain English Breakdown
The source text states the bill passed both chambers but does not confirm if it has been signed by the Governor or enacted into law.
Contractor Discipline for Violating Building Laws
This law expands the definition of 'building laws' to include rules about architecture, engineering, geology, surveying, and pest control, allowing contractors to face discipline if they knowingly break these specific prohibitions.
What This Bill Does
- Defines 'building laws of the state' to include certain prohibitions on practicing or unlicensed practice in architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, geology, geophysics, and land surveying.
- Makes willful or deliberate disregard and violation of these new categories a cause for disciplinary action against licensed contractors.
- Moves rules about structural pest control into the 'building laws' category instead of listing them separately.
Who It Names or Affects
- Licensed contractors regulated by the Contractors State License Board who may face discipline for violating expanded building law definitions.
Terms To Know
- Contractors State License Law
- The existing law that creates the board to license and regulate contractors.
- Disciplinary action
- A penalty or punishment given by the Board against a licensee for breaking rules.
- Willful or deliberate disregard
- Knowing and intentional ignoring of laws, which is required to trigger discipline under this bill.
Limits and Unknowns
- The text does not list specific penalties for violations.
- The effective date of the law is not provided in the source material.
- The exact details of how 'unlicensed practice' will be proven are not described.