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AB-1341 • 2026

Contractors: discipline: building law violations.

Contractors: discipline: building law violations.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Hoover
Last action
2025-08-25
Official status
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on the types of disciplinary actions or how unlicensed individuals and businesses will be affected.

Contractors: Discipline for Building Law Violations

This law adds certain prohibitions related to architecture, engineering, geology, land surveying, and landscape architecture to the list of building laws that contractors must follow, making violations a reason for disciplinary action.

What This Bill Does

  • Adds prohibitions related to architecture, engineering, geology, land surveying, and landscape architecture to the list of building laws that contractors must follow.
  • Makes willful or deliberate disregard and violation of these new additions a cause for disciplinary action against licensed contractors.
  • Updates existing regulations on structural pest control to fit within the broader category of building law.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Contractors who are licensed by the Contractors State License Board
  • People and businesses involved in architecture, engineering, geology, land surveying, and landscape architecture

Terms To Know

Contractors State License Law
A law that sets rules for licensing and regulating contractors.
Disciplinary action
Punishments given to someone who breaks the rules, like fines or license suspension.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what kind of punishments will be used for violations.
  • It is unclear how this law will affect unlicensed individuals and businesses.

Bill History

  1. 2025-08-25 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Referred to suspense file.

  2. 2025-07-02 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  3. 2025-07-01 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 30).

  4. 2025-06-11 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  5. 2025-05-28 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.

  6. 2025-05-15 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  7. 2025-05-15 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1557.)

  8. 2025-05-07 California Legislative Information

    Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

  9. 2025-05-01 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  10. 2025-04-30 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30).

  11. 2025-04-24 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  12. 2025-04-23 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended.

  13. 2025-04-22 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 22).

  14. 2025-03-25 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.

  15. 2025-03-24 California Legislative Information

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.

  16. 2025-03-24 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on B. & P.

  17. 2025-02-24 California Legislative Information

    Read first time.

  18. 2025-02-22 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

  19. 2025-02-21 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1341, as amended, Hoover.
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
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.”

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