Contractors: discipline: building law violations.

Assembly Member Hoover's legislation expands California's contractor disciplinary framework by incorporating violations related to architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, geology, and land surveying into the state's building laws. The measure amends the Business and Professions Code to specify that willful violations of regulations governing these professions constitute grounds for contractor license discipline.

The bill redefines "building laws of the state" to encompass prohibitions on unlicensed practice across multiple design and engineering disciplines. This change places violations of architectural practice requirements, engineering standards, geological and geophysical regulations, and land surveying provisions under the Contractors State License Board's disciplinary authority. The legislation also recategorizes existing structural pest control provisions as building laws rather than maintaining them as separate grounds for discipline.

Under the amended code, contractors face potential license discipline for deliberately disregarding regulations across this broader spectrum of building-related professions. The measure maintains existing disciplinary triggers related to safety laws, labor regulations, insurance requirements, permit processes, and other construction standards while expanding oversight to adjacent professional domains that intersect with contracting work.