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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 456: Contractors: exemptions: muralists.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 456 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 19, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Contractors: exemptions: muralists. Primary sponsor: Angelique Ashby (D). It lists 8 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (October 13, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 758, Statutes of 2025.

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Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law, the Contractors State License Law, establishes the Contractors State License Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of contractors. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for a person to engage in the business, or act in the capacity, of a contractor without a license, unless exempted. Existing law exempts from the Contractors State License Law, among other things, a nonprofit corporation providing assistance to an owner, as specified.

This bill would exempt from that law an artist who draws, paints, applies, executes, restores, or conserves a mural, as defined, pursuant to an agreement with a person who could legally authorize the work.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 8 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Angelique AshbyPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate8
Patrick AhrensCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly26
Marc BermanCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly23
Jeff GonzalezCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly36
Matt HaneyCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly17
Corey JacksonCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly60
John LairdCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate17
Tina McKinnorCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly61
Gail PellerinCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly28

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 758, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2905.) Ordered to the Senate.
  6. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  7. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).
  8. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  9. Coauthors revised.
  10. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
  11. Re-referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S., & T. and B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
  12. Referred to Com. on B. & P.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page