republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-569.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Contractors: civil penalties: letters of admonishment."
description: "Existing law, except as specified, authorizes any board, bureau, or commission within the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) to establish, by regulation, a system for the issuance to a licensee of a citation which may contain an order of abatement or an order to pay an administrative fine assessed by the board, bureau, or commission where the licensee is in violation of the applicable licensing act or regulation adopted under the act. Existing law prohibits an administrative fine assessed by the board, bureau, or commission from exceeding $5,000 for each inspection or each investigation made with respect to the violation, or, if the violation involves fraudulent billing submitted to an insurance company, the Medi-Cal program, or Medicare, $5,000 for each violation or count (administrative fine maximum) ."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 569"
citation: "California AB 569 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Contractors: civil penalties: letters of admonishment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grayson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-11"
last_action: "2021-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1521f6e-26fa-4fbf-88f3-6695e55d451a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB569"
source_hash: "9c90617ed7e2f937c6465ff0e3e8dfc80f392288e83c34c45d4d28a787e99da2"
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 569 (20212022) — Contractors: civil penalties: letters of admonishment.

Existing law, except as specified, authorizes any board, bureau, or commission within the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) to establish, by regulation, a system for the issuance to a licensee of a citation which may contain an order of abatement or an order to pay an administrative fine assessed by the board, bureau, or commission where the licensee is in violation of the applicable licensing act or regulation adopted under the act. Existing law prohibits an administrative fine assessed by the board, bureau, or commission from exceeding $5,000 for each inspection or each investigation made with respect to the violation, or, if the violation involves fraudulent billing submitted to an insurance company, the Medi-Cal program, or Medicare, $5,000 for each violation or count (administrative fine maximum) .

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB569&version=20210AB56999INT)
2. **07/16/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB569&version=20210AB56997CHP)
3. **AB569** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB569)
4. **07/06/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB569&version=20210AB56998ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB569 Grayson By Caballero — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 569 Grayson Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Grayson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2021-02-18** Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD. `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`
- **2021-04-14** 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 1153.) `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 Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2021-06-09** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-21** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-07-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1803.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-07-05** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-07-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2021-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 94, 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/a1521f6e-26fa-4fbf-88f3-6695e55d451a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).