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Bill	Professions and vocations: contractors: home improvement contracts: prohibited business practices: limitation of actions.	(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 (department) . That law requires a home improvement contract, as defined, to be in writing and include the contract amount, as specified, and prohibits any downpayment for that contract from exceeding the lesser of $1,000 or 10% of the contract amount. Except for a downpayment, existing law prohibits the contractor from requesting or accepting payment that exceeds the value of the work performed or material delivered. Existing law makes the violation of these provisions a misdemeanor and sets the penalty as a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $5,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 601	California SB 601 (20232024)	bill	Professions and vocations contractors home improvement contracts limitation of actions prohibited business practices	enacted	McGuire	7	30	10	2023-02-15	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/7ca87aac-ad9e-44f5-8a75-8802cd7c9040	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB601	e9858f5ea5ac176cb01d8fc98dcc084a37792775d13597f59a566f68108041e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 601 (20232024) — Professions and vocations: contractors: home improvement contracts: prohibited business practices: limitation of actions.

(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 (department) . That law requires a home improvement contract, as defined, to be in writing and include the contract amount, as specified, and prohibits any downpayment for that contract from exceeding the lesser of $1,000 or 10% of the contract amount. Except for a downpayment, existing law prohibits the contractor from requesting or accepting payment that exceeds the value of the work performed or material delivered. Existing law makes the violation of these provisions a misdemeanor and sets the penalty as a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $5,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/13/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB601 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/19/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB601 McGuire Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 601 McGuire Senate Third Reading By Berman — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 13–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• McGuire — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Re-referred to Coms. on B., P. & E. D. and PUB S. referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2023-04-11 Set for hearing April 25 in PUB S. pending receipt.
• 2023-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 747.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on PUB S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 901.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2023-05-08 May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1176.) (May 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1279.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-01 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3264.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2818.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 403, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7ca87aac-ad9e-44f5-8a75-8802cd7c9040. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).