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Bill	Contracting business: home improvement: residential property.	(1) Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, defines and regulates the activities of contractors and provides for their licensure, regulation, and discipline by the Contractors' State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law classifies the contracting business as general engineering contracting, general building contracting, and specialty contracting. Certain violations of the Contractors' State License Law are punished as misdemeanors.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 1189	California SB 1189 (20192020)	bill	Contracting business: home improvement: residential property.	enacted	McGuire	9	34	8	2020-02-20	2020-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/d0782527-6dde-46bc-90af-31ea67d3b386	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1189	6661694989dfbb9d466c48787d907dfc0b27c6aa92740dce7aeb2477df27c43c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1189 (20192020) — Contracting business: home improvement: residential property.

(1) Existing law, the Contractors' State License Law, defines and regulates the activities of contractors and provides for their licensure, regulation, and discipline by the Contractors' State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law classifies the contracting business as general engineering contracting, general building contracting, and specialty contracting. Certain violations of the Contractors' State License Law are punished as misdemeanors.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/06/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/27/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/03/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/30/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB1189 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB1189 McGuire et al. Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB1189 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1189 McGuire Senate Third Reading By Low — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• McGuire — primary (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2020-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2020-03-05 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2020-03-11 Set for hearing March 23.
• 2020-03-18 March 23 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-04-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-05-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-05-14 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2020-05-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3550.) (May 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-05-26 Set for hearing June 1.
• 2020-06-02 Hearing rescheduled due to Capitol closure.
• 2020-06-03 Set for hearing June 9.
• 2020-06-09 June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2020-06-11 Set for hearing June 18.
• 2020-06-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3770.) (June 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-06-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2020-06-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3818.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2020-06-29 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2020-07-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-07-27 July 27 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-08-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (August 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-18 August 18 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5202.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-25 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2020-08-28 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4397.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 364, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0782527-6dde-46bc-90af-31ea67d3b386. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).