Bill Text: CA AB1074 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Contractors: fraudulent license numbers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-07-14 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Testimony taken. Further hearing to be set. [AB1074 Detail]
Download: California-2009-AB1074-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1074 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Conway
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
An act to amend Section 7027.3 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to contractors.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1074, as introduced, Conway. Contractors: fraudulent license
numbers.
Existing law provides that it is a crime if a person willfully and
intentionally uses, with the intent to defraud, a contractor's
license number that does not correspond to the number on a currently
valid contractor's license held by that person.
This bill would instead provide that it is a crime if a person
willfully and intentionally uses, with the intent to defraud, any
number that does not correspond to the number on a currently valid
contractor's license held by that person.
Because a violation of the bill's provisions would be punished as
a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 7027.3 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
7027.3. Any person, licensed or unlicensed, who willfully and
intentionally uses, with intent to defraud, a contractor's
license number that does not correspond to the number on a
currently valid contractor's license held by that person, is
punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or
by imprisonment in state prison, or in county jail for not more than
one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. The penalty
provided by this section is cumulative to the penalties available
under all other laws of this state. If, upon investigation, the
registrar has probable cause to believe that an unlicensed individual
is in violation of this section, the registrar may issue a citation
pursuant to Section 7028.7.
SEC. 2. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.
