---
type: "Bill"
title: "Contractors: disciplinary actions."
description: "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors State License Board (board) . Under existing law, willful or deliberate disregard by a licensed contractor of various state building, labor, and safety laws constitutes a cause for disciplinary action by the board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 246"
citation: "California AB 246 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Contractors: disciplinary actions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72c41fea-9898-44c9-a25f-5886da4db7e8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB246"
source_hash: "8a68cc95cf2a71a8605dfa6a9451dba66fbe697ac9b63626b081452d18aa98d4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 246 (20212022) — Contractors: disciplinary actions.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors State License Board (board) . Under existing law, willful or deliberate disregard by a licensed contractor of various state building, labor, and safety laws constitutes a cause for disciplinary action by the board.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/13/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB246&version=20210AB24699INT)
2. **07/09/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB246&version=20210AB24697CHP)
3. **AB246** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB246)
4. **06/25/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB246&version=20210AB24698ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB246 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 246 Quirk Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Quirk — primary (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — author (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-01-14** From printer. May be heard in committee February 13.
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-04-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1152.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-12** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-21** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1632.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-06-24** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-06-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2021-07-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 46, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72c41fea-9898-44c9-a25f-5886da4db7e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).