Bill Text: CA AB246 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Enrolled

California Assembly Bill 246 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Contractors: disciplinary actions.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 46, Statutes of 2021. [AB246 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB246-Enrolled.html

Enrolled June 25, 2021

Passed IN Senate June 24, 2021

Passed IN Assembly April 22, 2021

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 246

Introduced by Assembly Members Quirk and Mathis
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bauer-Kahan, Lee, and Cunningham)

January 13, 2021

An act to repeal and add Section 7110 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to contractors.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 246, Quirk. Contractors: disciplinary actions.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors State License Board (board). Under existing law, willful or deliberate disregard by a licensed contractor of various state building, labor, and safety laws constitutes a cause for disciplinary action by the board.

This bill would reorganize these provisions and would add illegal dumping to the list of violations that constitute a cause for disciplinary action against a contractor by the board.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 7110 of the Business and Professions Code is repealed.

SEC. 2.

Section 7110 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:

7110.

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:

(a) Section 8550 or 8556 of this code.

(b) Sections 1689.5 to 1689.15, inclusive, of the Civil Code.

(d) The Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 4100) of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code).

(e) Any provision of the Health and Safety Code or Water Code, relating to the digging, boring, or drilling of water wells.

(f) Any provision of Article 2 (commencing with Section 4216) of Chapter 3.1 of Division 5 of Title 1 of the Government Code.

(g) 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 82041 of the Government Code.