AB 635 (De La Torre) Public Contracts: Roofing Projects
This law now makes a project for the repair or replacement of a roof of a public school or community college, a material, product, thing, or service considered equal if it meets specified requirements. It requires an architect, engineer, roof consultant, and other specified persons or entities to complete and sign a certification related to financial relationships in connection with such a project and to provide the certification to the school district or community college district. This law went into effect immediately after signing.
AB 1659 (Huber) State Government: Agency Repeals
Prior law had a Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and this new law will create a Joint Sunset Review Committee in its place. The purpose is to identify and eliminate waste, duplication, and inefficiency in government agencies and to include a comprehensive analysis of eligible agencies to determine if the agencies are still necessary and cost effective. This affects the CSLB just as the current sunsetting process currently does.
AB 2036 (Berryhill) Public Contracts: Contract Document Distribution
This law amends existing laws that have set forth procedures relating to state and local agencies solicitation and evaluation of bids or proposals for, and award, of contracts for the construction of public works.
The state department and any local agencies are now to provide an electronic copy of the project’s contract documents to the contractor plan room at no charge upon request from a contractor plan service.
AB 2058 (Block) Unemployment Insurance: Retraining Benefits
This law establishes the California Training Benefits Program, which specifies that unemployed individuals who qualify for unemployment compensation benefits, extended duration benefits, or an application for federal or state extended benefits or any federally funded unemployment compensation benefits, and applies for the program shall be deemed to be eligible for the program during a period of training or retraining and requires disclosure of related information.
AB 2130 (Huber) Professions and Vocations: Sunset Review
This goes hand in hand with AB 1659 wherein prior law had a Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and this new law creates a Joint Sunset Review Committee in its place. The purpose is to identify and eliminate waste, duplication, and inefficiency in government agencies and to include a comprehensive analysis of eligible agencies to determine if the agencies are still necessary and cost effective. As with AB 1659, this affects the CSLB just as the current sunsetting process currently does.
AB 2181 (Hagman) State Contract Act: Contracting by State Agencies
This law amends the State Contract Act by requiring projects that are not under the jurisdiction of specified departments to be under the charge and control of the Department of General Services.
AB 2195 (Silva) Taxation: Board of Equalization: Penalty: Proof
This new law deals with taxes and fees administered by the State Board of Equalization. The Board of Equalization now has the burden of proof, by clear and convincing evidence, in sustaining its assertion of penalties for intent to evade or fraud a civil proceeding. In addition, a taxpayer shall not be subject to unreasonable search or access to records in violation of the law.
AB 2211 (Fuentes) Instruction
This law authorizes school districts maintaining high schools to establish work-based learning programs and purchase related liability insurance. It also authorizes specified school programs to deliver such opportunities for pupils that may include work experience education, community classrooms, cooperative career technical education programs and job shadowing experience. In addition, specified entities are authorized to develop related principles and guidelines. This law went into effect immediately after signing.
AB 2305 (Knight) Contractors: Workers’ Compensation Insurance
This law amends existing law that requires a contractor with a C 39 roofing classification to obtain and maintain workers' compensation insurance even if the contractor has no employees. It also extends the operation of those provisions and requires license suspension for lack of workers' compensation for employees. Lastly, it extends the operation of existing law that requires an insurer who issues a workers' compensation policy to a roofing contractor holding such license to perform an annual payroll audit and requires statistical data.
SB 156 (Wright) Insurance: Fraud Prevention and Detection
This law authorizes the Department of Insurance to convene meetings with insurance companies to discuss information concerning suspected, anticipated, or completed acts of fraud. It also protects a person sharing information pursuant to the authorization from civil liability for libel, slander or other causes of action.
SB 189 (Lowenthal) Mechanic’s Liens
This law revises and recasts provisions of existing law relating to Mechanic’s Liens. It enacts separate provisions governing private works of improvement and public works of improvement. It also revises and recasts provisions governing design professionals liens, Mechanic’s Liens, notices of cessations, bonds and retention payments.
SB 294 (Negrette McLeod) Professions and Vocations: Regulation
This law provides for the extension of various provisions governing professions or boards, the Contractors' State License Board being one of them.
SB 392 (Florez) Contractors: Limited Liability Companies
This law amends the Beverly-Killea Limited Liability Company Act and the Contractors’ License Law. It authorizes the issuance of a contractor’s license to a limited liability company and authorizes specified officers to qualify for the license. The limited liability company will be required to maintain liability insurance and post a surety bonds as a condition of licensure. The law also provides personal liability of persons within the company in a certain instance and adds persons prohibited from engaging in business without a license.
SB 694 (Correa) Public Contracts: Public Works: Competitive Bidding: Procedures
This law extends the time to request a review and the time the State Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission has to review a public agency project that is to be performed after the rejection of all bids as well as for a Commission review of work for which evidence was provided that the work has exceeded the force account limits or has been improperly classified as maintenance.
SB 972 (Wolk) Indemnity: Design Professionals
This law provides, with respect to contracts and amendments to contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2011, with a public agency for design professional services, that all provisions, clauses, covenants, and agreements contained in, collateral to, or affecting these contracts or amendments to contracts that purport to require the design professional to defend the public agency under an indemnity agreement, including the duty and the cost to defend, are unenforceable, except for claims that arise out of, pertain to, or relate to the negligence, recklessness, or willful misconduct of the design professional. It also provides that all contracts and all solicitation documents between a public agency and a design professional are deemed to incorporate these provisions by reference.
SB 1254 (Leno) Contractors: Workers’ Compensation Insurance Coverage
This law authorizes the Registrar of Contractors to issue a Stop Work Order to any licensee or unlicensed contractor who, as an employer, has failed to secure workers’ compensation insurance coverage for his or her employees and makes a failure to comply with the order a misdemeanor. It also sets forth procedures for the payment of employees pursuant to issuance of a Stop Work Order, and allows an employer to request a hearing to protest a Stop Work Order. Lastly, it would authorize an increase in the number of CSLB peace officer positions from three to 12.
SB 1491 (Business and Professions and Economic Development Committee) Professions and Vocations
This law has Contractors’ License Law cleanup provisions that modify the method for administering the open book asbestos examination and extends the statute of limitations for filing an action to discipline unlicensed contractors so that it conforms to the statute of limitations for licensees, and states that an action must be brought within four years from the date of the violation or 18 months after the filing of the complaint, whichever is later.
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