CA AB 2435

in committee

Professional engineering, geology, geophysics, and land surveying: practice without a license: administrative penalties.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law establishes the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists to license and regulate professional engineers under the Professional Engineers Act, to license and regulate land surveyors under the Professional Land Surveyors' Act, and to license and regulate geologists and geophysicists under the Geologist and Geophysicist Act. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to practice or to offer to practice civil, electrical, or mechanical engineering, geology, geophysics, or land surveying without being licensed under those acts, unless the person is exempt from licensure. Existing law requires fees and civil penalties received pursuant to the Professional Engineers Act, the Professional Land Surveyors' Act, and the Geologist and Geophysicist Act to be deposited in the Professional Engineer's, Land Surveyor's, and Geologist's Fund, and continuously appropriates those funds to the board for purposes of those acts. This bill would authorize the executive officer of the board to issue a citation to a person or entity that subjects the person or entity to an administrative fine of not less than $500 and no more than $20,000 for each violation of practicing or offering to practice civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, geology, geophysics, or land surveying without a license unless the person or entity is otherwise authorized by law. By authorizing additional penalties to be deposited into a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.

Introduced: 2026-03-16
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-06-15 — In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Bill type: bill,appropriation
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2026-02-20
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2026-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-03-16
Referred to Com. on B. & P.
referral-committee
2026-03-16
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2026-03-17
Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
referral-committee
2026-03-23
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2026-04-15
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2026-04-16
Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
referral-committee
2026-04-21
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-05-06
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 6).
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2026-05-07
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2026-05-14
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5056.)
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2026-05-14
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2026-05-27
Referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D. and PUB. S.
referral-committee
2026-06-10
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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2026-06-15
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Versions

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03/16/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-16Compare
04/15/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-04-15Compare
06/10/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-10Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-04-21 · pass · 18-0
Member-level votes (19)
- Lowenthal: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Berman: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Chen: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Bains: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Addis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Caloza: other
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2026-05-06 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Solache: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Ta: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Krell: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Arambula: other
AB 2435 Chen Consent Calendar Second Day
2026-05-14 · pass · 77-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Berman: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Soria: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Solache: yes
- Wilson: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Papan: yes
- Davies: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Lee: yes
- Fong: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ward: yes
- Krell: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ta: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Bains: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Patel: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Arambula: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Flora: other

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