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 03/23/26 - Amended Senate
 02/18/26 - Introduced

 SB-1165 Contractor licenses: outstanding liabilities assessed by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/16/2026 09:00 PM

SB1165:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 16, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 23, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1165

Introduced by Senator Caballero

February 18, 2026

An act to amend Section 7145.5 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to contractors.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1165, as amended, Caballero.
 Contractor licenses: outstanding liabilities assessed by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration.

 Existing law, the Contractors State License Law, establishes the Contractors State License Board and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of contractors. Existing law requires the board to appoint a registrar of contractors, as specified, to serve as the executive officer and secretary of the board. Existing law permits the registrar to suspend or refuse to issue, reinstate, reactivate, or renew a license for a failure to resolve all outstanding final liabilities, including taxes and any fees that may be assessed by, among others, the State Board of Equalization, except for licensees who have
 Equalization and the Franchise Tax Board. Existing law exempts from that provision the outstanding final liabilities assessed by the State Board of Equalization of a licensee who has entered into an installment payment agreement with the State Board of Equalization, as provided.

Existing law, on July 1, 2017, transferred to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration various duties, powers, and responsibilities of the State Board of Equalization.

This bill would permit the registrar to suspend or refuse to issue, reinstate, reactivate, or renew a license for a failure to
 resolve outstanding liabilities assessed by update the above-described outstanding liability enforcement provisions of the Contractors State License Law to include references to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. The bill would authorize the department to request that the registrar suspend or refuse to issue, reinstate, reactivate, or renew a license unless the licensee has entered into an installment payment agreement with the department, as specified. The bill would require the department to give written notice to the licensee of that request, as provided. The bill would authorize the department to prescribe, adopt, and enforce regulations relating to the administration and enforcement of these provisions.
 Administration, as specified.
 The bill would require the installment payment agreements with the State Board of Equalization or the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration department to be in writing.

The Contractors State License Law requires the application for a contractor’s license to include an authorization by the applicant for the Franchise Tax Board to disclose the tax information that is required for the registrar to administer the outstanding liability enforcement provisions, as specified. Existing law authorizes the Franchise Tax Board to audit these authorizations.

This bill would revise the application requirements to include a similar tax information disclosure authorization for the department, as specified. The bill would also authorize the department to audit these authorizations.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 7145.5 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

7145.5.

 (a) The registrar may refuse to issue, reinstate, reactivate, or renew a license or may suspend a license for the failure of a licensee to resolve all outstanding final liabilities, which include taxes, additions to tax, penalties, interest, and any fees that may be assessed by the board, the Department of Industrial Relations, the Employment Development Department, the Franchise Tax Board, the State Board of