AB-1341
Labor & Employment

Contractors: discipline: building law violations.

Engrossed
CA
2025-2026 Regular Session
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Key Takeaways

  • Expands contractor disciplinary actions to include violations of architecture and engineering licensing laws.
  • Requires contractors to comply with additional professional licensing requirements across multiple fields.
  • Authorizes the Contractors State License Board to enforce violations of expanded building laws.
  • Incorporates structural pest control regulations into state building law requirements.

Summary

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.

Key Dates

Next Step
Referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations
Next Step
Senate Committee
Referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations
Hearing has not been scheduled yet
Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Hearing
Senate Committee
Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Hearing
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
Vote on Assembly Floor
Assembly Floor
Vote on Assembly Floor
AB 1341 Hoover Assembly Third Reading
Assembly Appropriations Hearing
Assembly Committee
Assembly Appropriations Hearing
Do pass
Assembly Business And Professions Hearing
Assembly Committee
Assembly Business And Professions Hearing
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
Introduced
Assembly Floor
Introduced
Introduced. To print.

Contacts

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Anna CaballeroD
Senator
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Tim GraysonD
Senator
Committee Member
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Megan DahleR
Senator
Committee Member
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Kelly SeyartoR
Senator
Committee Member
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Josh HooverR
Assemblymember
Bill Author
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Anna CaballeroD
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Tim GraysonD
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Committee Member
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Megan DahleR
Senator
Committee Member
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Kelly SeyartoR
Senator
Committee Member
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Josh HooverR
Assemblymember
Bill Author
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Aisha WahabD
Senator
Committee Member
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Christopher CabaldonD
Senator
Committee Member
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Laura RichardsonD
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Committee Member

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Introduced By

Josh Hoover
Josh HooverR
California State Assembly Member
40% progression
Bill has passed all readings in its first house and is ready to move to the other house (5/15/2025)

Latest Voting History

June 30, 2025
PASS
Senate Committee
Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Hearing
AyesNoesNVRTotalResult
90211PASS

Key Takeaways

  • Expands contractor disciplinary actions to include violations of architecture and engineering licensing laws.
  • Requires contractors to comply with additional professional licensing requirements across multiple fields.
  • Authorizes the Contractors State License Board to enforce violations of expanded building laws.
  • Incorporates structural pest control regulations into state building law requirements.

Get Involved

Act Now!

Email the authors or create an email template to send to all relevant legislators.

Introduced By

Josh Hoover
Josh HooverR
California State Assembly Member

Summary

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.

40% progression
Bill has passed all readings in its first house and is ready to move to the other house (5/15/2025)

Key Dates

Next Step
Referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations
Next Step
Senate Committee
Referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations
Hearing has not been scheduled yet
Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Hearing
Senate Committee
Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Hearing
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
Vote on Assembly Floor
Assembly Floor
Vote on Assembly Floor
AB 1341 Hoover Assembly Third Reading
Assembly Appropriations Hearing
Assembly Committee
Assembly Appropriations Hearing
Do pass
Assembly Business And Professions Hearing
Assembly Committee
Assembly Business And Professions Hearing
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
Introduced
Assembly Floor
Introduced
Introduced. To print.

Latest Voting History

June 30, 2025
PASS
Senate Committee
Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Hearing
AyesNoesNVRTotalResult
90211PASS

Contacts

Profile
Anna CaballeroD
Senator
Committee Member
Not Contacted
Not Contacted
Profile
Tim GraysonD
Senator
Committee Member
Not Contacted
Not Contacted
Profile
Megan DahleR
Senator
Committee Member
Not Contacted
Not Contacted
Profile
Kelly SeyartoR
Senator
Committee Member
Not Contacted
Not Contacted
Profile
Josh HooverR
Assemblymember
Bill Author
Not Contacted
Not Contacted
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Select All Legislators
Profile
Anna CaballeroD
Senator
Committee Member
Profile
Tim GraysonD
Senator
Committee Member
Profile
Megan DahleR
Senator
Committee Member
Profile
Kelly SeyartoR
Senator
Committee Member
Profile
Josh HooverR
Assemblymember
Bill Author
Profile
Aisha WahabD
Senator
Committee Member
Profile
Christopher CabaldonD
Senator
Committee Member
Profile
Laura RichardsonD
Senator
Committee Member