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CA AB 1002

enacted

Contractors: failure to pay wages: discipline.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 1002 pass?

Yes. CA AB 1002 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-10. Latest recorded action (2025-10-10): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 567, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 1002 about?

Existing law, the Contractors State License Law, establishes the Contractors State License Board to license and regulate contractors and establishes the registrar of contractors as the executive officer and secretary of the board. Existing law requires the registrar, upon receipt of the Labor Commissioner's finding of a willful or deliberate violation of the Labor Code by a licensee or transmission to the board of citations or other actions taken by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, to initiate disciplinary action against the licensee within 18 months. This bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action to impose discipline upon, to deny an application for, or to deny continued maintenance of, a contractor's license for failing to pay its workers the full amount of wages the workers are entitled to under state law or because the contractor has not fulfilled a wage judgment or is in violation of an injunction or court order regarding the payment of wages to its workers. The bill would require the Attorney General to notify the registrar before bringing a civil action and would authorize the board to intervene in a proceeding brought pursuant to the bill's provisions. The bill would require a court to issue an order directing the registrar to suspend or revoke, to deny an application for, or to deny the continued maintenance of, a contractor's license under terms specified by the court.

Who sponsors CA AB 1002?

Gabriel is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1002, joined by 6 cosponsors.

Description

Existing law, the Contractors State License Law, establishes the Contractors State License Board to license and regulate contractors and establishes the registrar of contractors as the executive officer and secretary of the board. Existing law requires the registrar, upon receipt of the Labor Commissioner's finding of a willful or deliberate violation of the Labor Code by a licensee or transmission to the board of citations or other actions taken by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, to initiate disciplinary action against the licensee within 18 months. This bill would authorize the Attorney General to bring a civil action to impose discipline upon, to deny an application for, or to deny continued maintenance of, a contractor's license for failing to pay its workers the full amount of wages the workers are entitled to under state law or because the contractor has not fulfilled a wage judgment or is in violation of an injunction or court order regarding the payment of wages to its workers. The bill would require the Attorney General to notify the registrar before bringing a civil action and would authorize the board to intervene in a proceeding brought pursuant to the bill's provisions. The bill would require a court to issue an order directing the registrar to suspend or revoke, to deny an application for, or to deny the continued maintenance of, a contractor's license under terms specified by the court.

Introduced
2025-03-28
Latest action
2025-10-10 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 567, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Gabrielauthor
  • Ahrenscoauthor
  • Bryancoauthor
  • Harabediancoauthor
  • Kalracoauthor
  • Ortegacoauthor
  • Zburcoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-20

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-21

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  3. 2025-03-28

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.

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  4. 2025-03-28

    Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD.

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  5. 2025-04-01

    Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.

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  6. 2025-04-22

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  7. 2025-04-30

    Coauthors revised.

  8. 2025-04-30

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  9. 2025-05-07

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  10. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 23).

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  11. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  12. 2025-06-02

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 1911.)

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  13. 2025-06-03

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  14. 2025-06-11

    Referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D. and JUD.

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  15. 2025-06-26

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.

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  16. 2025-07-07

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  17. 2025-07-16

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  18. 2025-08-18

    In committee: Referred to suspense file.

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  19. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).

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  20. 2025-08-29

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  21. 2025-09-04

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 2. Page 2503.).

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  22. 2025-09-04

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  23. 2025-09-08

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 3035.).

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  24. 2025-09-15

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

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  25. 2025-10-10

    Approved by the Governor.

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  26. 2025-10-10

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 567, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/20/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-20Compare
  • 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-28Compare
  • 06/26/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-06-26Compare
  • 09/10/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-10Compare
  • 10/10/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-10Compare
  • AB1002Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    2025-04-22 · pass · 17-0

    Member-level votes (18)
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Macedo: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-29 · pass · 10-0

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Macedo: other
    • Bauer-Kahan: other

  • Do pass.

    2025-05-23 · pass · 13-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Calderon: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Sanchez: other
    • Tangipa: other

  • AB 1002 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading

    2025-06-03 · pass · 74-1

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Addis: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • DeMaio: no
    • Ellis: other
    • Castillo: other
    • Tangipa: other
    • Macedo: other

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    2025-07-07 · pass · 10-1

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Niello: no

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-07-15 · pass · 11-2

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Valladares: no
    • Niello: no

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Grayson: yes

  • Do pass

    2025-08-29 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes

  • 3rd Reading AB1002 Gabriel et al. By Durazo

    2025-09-04 · pass · 34-2

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Stern: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Niello: no
    • Alvarado-Gil: no
    • Jones: other
    • Choi: other
    • Reyes: other
    • Valladares: other

  • AB 1002 Gabriel Concurrence in Senate Amendments

    2025-09-08 · pass · 73-2

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Ellis: no
    • DeMaio: no
    • Nguyen: other
    • Tangipa: other
    • Castillo: other
    • Macedo: other
    • Flora: other

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