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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

95

Introduced by Assembly Member Hoover

February 21, 2025

An act to amend Section 7110 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.

Vote: majority   Appropriation: no   Fiscal committee: yes   Local program: no

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

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.”

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

SECTION 1.

Section 7110 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

7110.

(a) 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:

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

(2) The safety laws or labor laws or compensation insurance laws or Unemployment Insurance Code of the state.

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

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

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

(6) 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.

(7) Any state or local law relating to the issuance of building permits.

(b) As used in this section, “building laws of the state” includes, without limitation, all of the following:

(1) Section 5536, subdivision (c) of Section 5536.1, and Section 5536.4.

(2) Section 5640.

(3) Section 6787.

(4) Section 7872.

(6) Section 8792.