AB 2486, as amended, Baker. Contractors’ State License Board: license search by location.
The Contractors’ State License Law provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors’ State License Board, which is within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires the board to appoint a registrar and requires the registrar, as specified, to publish a list of the names and addresses of contractors registered under that law.
This billbegin delete would authorize the board, when funds are available or during a scheduled update of the board’s Internet Web site,end deletebegin insert would require the board, prior to January 1, 2019,end insert to add an enhancement to the current contractor license check search function that would permit consumers to search
for a licensed contractor by either ZIP Code or geographic location.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 7018 is added to the Business and
2Professions Code, to read:
begin deleteThe board may, when funds are available or during a begin insertPrior to January
4scheduled update of the board’s Internet Web site, end delete
51, 2019, the board shall end insertadd an enhancement to the current
6contractor license check search function that permits consumers
7to search for a licensed contractor by either ZIP Code or geographic
8location.
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