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Bill	Contractor licensing: judgment debtor prohibition.	Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, provides for licensing and regulation of contractors by the Contractors' State License Board. That law requires the board, with the approval of the Director of Consumer Affairs, to appoint a registrar of contractors to serve as the executive officer and secretary of the board.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1278	California AB 1278 (20172018)	bill	Contractor licensing: judgment debtor prohibition.	enacted	Low	8	26	2	2017-02-17	2017-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/2af149d0-a715-4ad1-bdca-8826ad983218	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1278	dd06c84e203abb2f291a0c65e2822aea533025c56993056f50d073ca1ce3d196	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1278 (20172018) — Contractor licensing: judgment debtor prohibition.

Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, provides for licensing and regulation of contractors by the Contractors' State License Board. That law requires the board, with the approval of the Director of Consumer Affairs, to appoint a registrar of contractors to serve as the executive officer and secretary of the board.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/13/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/05/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1278 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1278 LOW Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1278 Low By Hertzberg — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-30 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-04-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2017-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-01 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1721.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2494.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3115.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 506, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2af149d0-a715-4ad1-bdca-8826ad983218. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).