CA SB 1165

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Contractor licenses: outstanding liabilities assessed by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Existing law, the Contractors State License Law, establishes the Contractors State License Board and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of contractors. Existing law requires the board to appoint a registrar of contractors, as specified, to serve as the executive officer and secretary of the board. Existing law permits the registrar to suspend or refuse to issue, reinstate, reactivate, or renew a license for a failure to resolve all outstanding final liabilities, including taxes and any fees that may be assessed by, among others, the State Board of Equalization and the Franchise Tax Board. Existing law exempts from that provision the outstanding final liabilities assessed by the State Board of Equalization of a licensee who has entered into an installment payment agreement with the State Board of Equalization, as provided. Existing law, on July 1, 2017, transferred to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration various duties, powers, and responsibilities of the State Board of Equalization. This bill would update the above-described outstanding liability enforcement provisions of the Contractors State License Law to include references to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, as specified. The bill would require the installment payment agreements with the State Board of Equalization or the department to be in writing. The Contractors State License Law requires the application for a contractor's license to include an authorization by the applicant for the Franchise Tax Board to disclose the tax information that is required for the registrar to administer the outstanding liability enforcement provisions, as specified. Existing law authorizes the Franchise Tax Board to audit these authorizations. This bill would revise the application requirements to include a similar tax information disclosure authorization for the department, as specified. The bill would also authorize the department to audit these authorizations.

Introduced: 2026-02-18
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-07-02 — Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

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Committees

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Action timeline

2026-02-18
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2026-02-19
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
2026-02-26
Referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee
2026-03-23
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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2026-04-08
Re-referred to Coms. on REV. & TAX. and B. P. & E.D.
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2026-04-08
Withdrawn from committee.
withdrawal
2026-04-08
Re-referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D. and REV. & TAX.
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2026-04-09
Set for hearing April 13.
2026-04-15
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3840.) (April 13).
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2026-04-16
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
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2026-04-16
Set for hearing April 22.
2026-04-22
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4015.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-04-24
Set for hearing May 4.
2026-05-04
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
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2026-05-05
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2026-05-07
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4167.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2026-05-07
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2026-05-18
Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and REV. & TAX.
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2026-06-16
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
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2026-06-23
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-07-01
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1).
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2026-07-02
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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Versions

02/18/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-18Compare
03/23/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-03-23Compare
04/16/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-04-16Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation]
2026-04-13 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Menjivar: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Niello: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Choi: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-04-22 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Becker: yes
- McNerney: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd
2026-05-07 · pass · 36-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Strickland: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Laird: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Becker: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Choi: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Limón: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Allen: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Stern: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Jones: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Grove: other
- Gonzalez: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
- Niello: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-06-16 · pass · 17-0
Member-level votes (19)
- Irwin: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Addis: yes
- Berman: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Hart: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Bains: other
- Chen: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-22 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Gipson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- McKinnor: yes
Do pass.
2026-07-01 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Krell: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Solache: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ta: yes
- Fong: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Tangipa: other
- Calderon: other
- Sharp-Collins: other
- Pellerin: other

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