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Bill	Contractors: failure to pay wages: discipline.	Existing law, the Contractors State License Law, establishes the Contractors State License Board to license and regulate contractors and establishes the registrar of contractors as the executive officer and secretary of the board. Existing law requires the registrar, upon receipt of the Labor Commissioner's finding of a willful or deliberate violation of the Labor Code by a licensee or transmission to the board of citations or other actions taken by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, to initiate disciplinary action against the licensee within 18 months.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1002	California AB 1002 (20252026)	bill	Contractors discipline failuretopaywages	enacted	Gabriel	6	26	10	2025-02-20	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/7571d10d-53ed-4dbc-8c36-dbcc544915cf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1002	22b8ded9c105aeadd48ccb14c4a23e7f534ac3143879a5457a63ba19428ced9e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1002 (20252026) — Contractors: failure to pay wages: discipline.

Existing law, the Contractors State License Law, establishes the Contractors State License Board to license and regulate contractors and establishes the registrar of contractors as the executive officer and secretary of the board. Existing law requires the registrar, upon receipt of the Labor Commissioner's finding of a willful or deliberate violation of the Labor Code by a licensee or transmission to the board of citations or other actions taken by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, to initiate disciplinary action against the licensee within 18 months.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/26/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1002 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/10/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1002 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — 74–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 1002 Gabriel Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1002 Gabriel et al. By Durazo — 34–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gabriel — primary (person)
• Ahrens — coauthor (person)
• Bryan — coauthor (person)
• Harabedian — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Ortega — coauthor (person)
• Zbur — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2025-03-28 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-03-28 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-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2025-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 1911.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-06-26 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-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 2. Page 2503.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 3035.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 567, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7571d10d-53ed-4dbc-8c36-dbcc544915cf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).