By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
Like the chefs at your favorite diner we are cooking up a few ‘short’ orders while providing contractors with a steady diet of ‘Q and A’ at the Capitol Connection. We finish this feast as the CSLB is ‘turning up the heat’ to serve new rules for contractors in disposing of mercury in California…
SACRAMENTO - The Contractors State License Board (CSLB) established a zero-tolerance enforcement policy in 2010 and now issues legal action against any C-10 Electrical contractor who willfully employs an uncertified electrician to perform work as an electrician.
CSLB is legally required to open an investigation and initiate disciplinary action against the contractor (which may include license suspension or revocation) within 60 days of receipt of a referral or complaint from the Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS).
By Shauna Krause, President, Capitol Services, Inc.
Contractors want a ‘level’ field when making bids with competition. That’s why your license number is required in advertising, signage and other places a consumer can see it. Hopefully, when they check it at CSLB it ‘flattens’ the ambition of unlicensed competitors. We also take a ‘short circuit’ in describing the route to adding a low voltage class…
from J. Kevin Pedrotti, Legislative Advocate for the Golden State Builders Exchanges
2013-14 budget Act, Budget Bill, AB 110
General Overview
This morning Governor Brown signed the main budget bill, a $96.3 billion state General fund spending plan that will shift more education money to poor and English-learning students and expand Medi-Cal coverage to more than 1 million low-income Californians under the federal healthcare program.