Assembly BillPassed first houseBusiness and Professions
AB 1341: Contractors: discipline: building law violations.
What AB 1341 does, verified December 13, 2025
The bill aims to amend the state's contractors' license law to increase discipline against contractors who violate building laws. This includes architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, geology, geophysics, and land surveying. A willful or deliberate disregard and violation of these specified prohibitions would be considered a cause for disciplinary action against a licensee. Additionally, the bill would revise and recast provisions related to the practice of structural pest control to align with the new definition of building laws.
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Last action: In committee: Referred to suspense file. (2025-05-15)Alert me
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| Aug. 25, 2025 | In committee: Referred to suspense file. |
| Jul. 02, 2025 | Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Jul. 01, 2025 | From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 30). |
| Jun. 11, 2025 | In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. |
| May. 28, 2025 | Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. |
Latest bill textAmended version, July 2, 2025 · 431 words
| Amended IN Senate July 02, 2025 |
| Amended IN Assembly May 07, 2025 |
| Amended IN Assembly April 23, 2025 |
| Amended IN Assembly March 24, 2025 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1341
| 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.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1341, as amended, Hoover. Contractors: discipline: building law violations.
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)Section 8550 or 8556.
(2)
(1)
Sections 1689.5 to 1689.15, inclusive, of the Civil Code.(3)
(2)
The safety laws or labor laws or compensation insurance laws or Unemployment Insurance Code of the state.(4)
(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).(5)
(4)
Any provision of the Health and Safety Code or Water Code, relating to the digging, boring, or drilling of water wells.(6)
(5)
Any provision of Article 2 (commencing with Section 4216) of Chapter 3.1 of Division 5 of Title 1 of the Government Code.(7)
(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.Text of AB 1341 as amended, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions