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CA SB 517

enacted

Home improvement contract requirements: subcontractors.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Existing law, the Contractors State License Law, defines and regulates the activities of contractors and provides for their licensure, regulation, and discipline by the Contractors State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires specific provisions and requirements for home improvement contracts, as defined. Existing law governing home improvement contracts specifies that the failure of a licensee, their agent or salesperson, or a person subject to the Contractors State License Law to provide certain information, notices, and disclosures in the contract, or to otherwise fail to comply with those provisions is cause for discipline. This bill would also specify that, for purposes of administrative discipline under the Contractors State License Law, the prime or direct contractor is responsible for completion of the project in accordance with the home improvement contract, plans, and specifications. The bill would also provide that this prime or direct contractor responsibility does not preclude administrative discipline against any subcontractor or home improvement salesperson on a home improvement contract for a violation of that law. The bill would further require a home improvement contract to contain a disclosure regarding whether or not a subcontractor will be used on the project, as specified. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 7159 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 1327 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1327 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

Introduced
2025-02-19
Status date
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Latest action
2025-10-10 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 585, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Nielloauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-19

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    introduction,reading-1,referral-committee

  2. 2025-02-20

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.

  3. 2025-02-26

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

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-18

    Set for hearing April 21.

  5. 2025-04-08

    Set for hearing April 29 in JUD. pending receipt.

  6. 2025-04-21

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 808.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  7. 2025-04-30

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 941.) (April 29).

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  8. 2025-05-01

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  9. 2025-05-06

    Set for hearing May 12.

  10. 2025-05-12

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.

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  11. 2025-05-13

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  12. 2025-05-15

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1091.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  13. 2025-05-15

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  14. 2025-05-29

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

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  15. 2025-06-24

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  16. 2025-07-09

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  17. 2025-07-16

    From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 16).

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  18. 2025-07-17

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  19. 2025-08-18

    From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.

  20. 2025-08-18

    Ordered to third reading.

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  21. 2025-09-03

    Read third time and amended.

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  22. 2025-09-03

    Ordered to third reading.

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  23. 2025-09-08

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2981.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  24. 2025-09-08

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  25. 2025-09-11

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2871.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  26. 2025-09-22

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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  27. 2025-10-10

    Approved by the Governor.

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  28. 2025-10-10

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 585, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/19/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-19Compare
  • 05/01/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-01Compare
  • 09/03/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-03Compare
  • 09/16/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-16Compare
  • 10/10/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-10Compare
  • SB517Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

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

    2025-04-21 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Niello: yes

  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-04-29 · pass · 13-0

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Wiener: yes

  • Consent Calendar 2nd

    2025-05-15 · pass · 34-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Becker: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Padilla: other
    • Alvarado-Gil: other
    • Grove: other
    • Rubio: other
    • Cervantes: other
    • Reyes: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-06-24 · pass · 16-0

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

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-07-08 · pass · 12-0

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

  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

    2025-07-16 · pass · 13-0

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

  • SB 517 Niello Senate Third Reading By Hoover

    2025-09-08 · pass · 78-0

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Addis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Lee: other
    • Nguyen: other

  • Unfinished Business SB517 Niello Concurrence

    2025-09-11 · pass · 40-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Valladares: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Wahab: yes

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