Bill Text: CA SB456 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Senate Bill 456

Bill Title: Contractors: exemptions: muralists.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Passed) 2025-10-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 758, Statutes of 2025. [SB456 Detail]

Download: California-2025-SB456-Chaptered.html

Senate Bill No. 456

CHAPTER 758

An act to add Section 7050 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.

[ Approved by Governor October 13, 2025. Filed with Secretary of State October 13, 2025. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 456, Ashby. 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.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 7050 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.