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Bill	Contractors: definition.	Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, creates the Contractors' State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs and provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors. Existing law defines the term "contractor" to include, among others, any person or consultant to an owner-builder who undertakes, offers to undertake, or submits a bid to construct a building or home improvement project. Existing law requires applicants and licensed contractors to pay specified fees that are deposited into the continuously appropriated Contractors' License Fund. Under existing law, it is a crime for a person to act as a contractor without a license.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2237	California AB 2237 (20112012)	bill appropriation	Contractors: definition.	enacted	Monning	6	23	6	2012-02-24	2012-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/1d025392-955b-4850-9c6b-c274a0a67ddd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2237	b05811bb776d0abbae8ac3141a07c2070f9b12ef811af4b81babf897738fc663	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2237 (20112012) — Contractors: definition.

Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, creates the Contractors' State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs and provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors. Existing law defines the term "contractor" to include, among others, any person or consultant to an owner-builder who undertakes, offers to undertake, or submits a bid to construct a building or home improvement project. Existing law requires applicants and licensed contractors to pay specified fees that are deposited into the continuously appropriated Contractors' License Fund. Under existing law, it is a crime for a person to act as a contractor without a license.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/09/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/19/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2237 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2237 MONNING Assembly Third Reading — 61–7 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2237 Monning By Emmerson — 35–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Monning — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-15 Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-03-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-04-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 7. Page 4980.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2012-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 4476.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-13 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2012-08-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2012-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 371, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1d025392-955b-4850-9c6b-c274a0a67ddd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).