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New Construction Industry Laws for 2014 Chaptered bills are bills that have passed through the Legislature as well as the Governor and are now laws. Following are some new laws of interest to the construction industry: AB 10 (Alejo) Minimum wage: annual adjustment As stated earlier, this new law makes the minimum wage in the State of California nine dollars ($9.00) per hour as of July 1, 2014. It further goes on to state that effective January 1, 2016, the new minimum wage will be ten dollars ($10.00) per hour. AB 44 (Buchanan) Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act: bidding practices This new law adds to the requirements of information needed by the Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act by making it mandatory that the contractor include the contractor license number of each subcontractor, and to also be provided on any bid or offer effective July 1, 2014. AB 127 (Skinner) Fire safety: fire retardants: building insulation This new law introduces new standards regarding insulation flammability standards which may provide manufacturers with flexibility with respect to flammability standards with or without the use of chemical flame retardants but remain consistent with building fire safety. AB 164 (Wieckowski) Infrastructure financing This new law requires a lease agreement between a governmental agency undertaking an infrastructure project and a private entity to include performance bonds as security to ensure the completion
of the construction of the facility and payment collect liquidated damages from an employer who bonds to secure the payment of claims of laborers, pays an employee less than minimum wage. mechanic’s, and material suppliers employed on the work under contract. AB 433 (Gordon) Contractors: fire protection systems: fire safety: State Fire Marshal AB 195 (Hall) Counties: construction projects: This new law adds that a plumbing contractor will design-build now be able to install residential fire protection for This new law extends provisions that authorize a one or two-family dwelling in addition to a fire counties to utilize the alternative design-build protection contractor until January 1, 2017. Addiprocedures for bidding on specified types of con- tionally, the State Fire Marshall will now be able to struction projects in excess of $2.5 million to July 1, propose, adopt and administer regulations that are 2016. deemed necessary in order to ensure fire safety in buildings and structures, as well as create and colAB 221 (Quirk-Silva) Recycled concrete lect reasonable fees to implement these provisions. This new law redefines recycled concrete to also include the definition as per the California Green AB 811 (Lowenthal) Excavations: regional notifiBuilding Standards Code. cation center system: contractor certification This new law requires statewide information about AB 341 (Dickinson) Green building standards facility events to be compiled by operators and exThis new law requires that the California Building cavators and made available in an annual report. Standards Commission and state agencies that This report is to be posted on the Internet website propose green building standards obtain input by of the regional notification centers. other state agencies that have expertise in green building subject areas. It also lists a specific process AB 1057 (Medina) Professions and vocations: lito submit those suggested changes among other censes: military service items. This new law will require as of January 1, 2015, that all board’s inquire on all applications for licensure if AB 401 (Daly) Transportation: design-build: the individual applying for the license is serving in highways or served in the military. This new law authorizes the Department of Transportation to utilize design-build procurement for AB 1092 (Levine) Building standards: electric veup to ten (10) projects on the state highway system, hicle charging infrastructure as well as other items. This new law requires that the California Building AB 442 (Nazarian) Employee wages Continued on page 16 This new law allows the Labor Commissioner to
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In This Issue
New Construction Industry Laws 2014 Page 1 Construction Holiday Moratorium Page 24 Tailgate Safety Topic Page 30 SBCA Online Planroom Report Page 33 SB City Building Permits Page 38 South County Building Permits Page 40 North County Building Permits Page 51
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Santa Barbara Contractors Association Calendar Highlights DECEMBER 2013
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SBCA Board of Directors Meeting December 3, 2013 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Santa Barbara
SBCA Board of Directors Meeting January 7, 2014 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm Location: SBCA, 914 A Santa Barbara Street
SBCA Board of Directors Meeting February 4, 2014 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm Location: SBCA, 914 A Santa Barbara Street
SBCA Online Planroom Demo & Training December 4, 2013 from 10:00am to 11:00am Location: SBCA, 914 A Santa Barbara Street
SBCA Online Planroom Demo & Training January 8, 2014 from 10:00am to 11:00am Location: SBCA, 914 A Santa Barbara Street
SBCA Online Planroom Demo & Training February 5, 2014 from 10:00am to 11:00am Location: SBCA, 914 A Santa Barbara Street
Built Green Orientation December 5, 2013 from 9:00am to 10:00am Location: Built Green Resource Center, 914 A Santa Barbara Street
Built Green Orientation January 9, 2014 from 9:00am to 10:00am Location: Built Green Resource Center, 914 A Santa Barbara Street
Built Green Orientation February 6, 2014 from 9:00am to 10:00am Location: Built Green Resource Center, 914 A Santa Barbara Street
SBCA Holiday Party Join us for some holiday cheer! December 10, 2013 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm Location: Figueroa Mountain Brewery, 137 Anacapa Street, Suite F, Santa Barbara
Federal/State Basic Payroll Tax Seminar January 21, 2014 from 9:00am to 3:30pm Location: EDD Office Training Room, 4820 McGrath Street Suite #200, Ventura
SBCA Builder Breakfast Speakers: City of Santa Barbara Bldg Dept February 13, 2014 from 7:30am to 8:30am Location: City of Santa Barbara Community Development, 630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara
SBCA Office Closed Christmas Holiday December 24 - 25, 2013
SBCA Builder Breakfast January 2014, TBA Location: SBCA, 914 A Santa Barbara Street
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New Construction Industry Laws for 2014 Continued from Page 1 Standards Commission adopt, approve, codify and publish mandatory building standards for installation of future electric vehicle charging for parking spaces in multifamily dwellings and other nonresidential development. This is to be in the next triennial edition of the California Building Standards Code so we should see some new construction projects in 2017 because of this law. AB 1236 (Hagman) Contractors: limited liability companies This new law adds an eligible surplus line insurer to the type of insurer that LLC’s can use in order to meet their insurance requirements for licensure with the CSLB. SB 7 (Steinberg) Public works: charter cities This new law prohibits a charter city from utilizing state funding or financial assistance for a construction project if a charter provision or ordinance authorizes a contractor to not comply with the states prevailing wage provisions on any public works contract. SB 54 (Hancock) Hazardous materials management: stationery sources: skilled and trained workforce This new law will extend prevailing wage requirements to private refinery construction, and also give union tradesmen first rights on refinery jobs before the members of the refinery workers union. SB 152 (Roth) Licensed professionals: engineers: geologists: geophysicists This new law deletes provisions that allowed temporary authorization to practice as an engineer, geologist or geophysicist and require geologists and geophysicists to use a written contract with specified information in the contract. SB 261 (Monning) Contractors: fraudulent use of license This new law provides that any licensed or unlicensed contractor who commits any specified activities with respect to a contractor license is subject to the administrative remedies authorized by the Contractors’ License Law. SB 262 (Monning) Contractors This new law relates to the Contractors’ License Law. It requires a qualifying individual to meet specified requirements with respect to his or her employer’s or principal’s construction operations. It further provides that this person shall not act in the capacity of the qualifying person for an additional individual or firm except under certain circumstances, the qualifying person must submit detailed information on the qualifiers duties and responsibilities for supervision and control of the construction operations, and provides that violations constitute a cause for disciplinary action, a fine and imprisonment. SB 308 (Lieu) Professions and vocations This new law extends the statutes that authorize 16
certified interior designers to obtain a stamp from an interior designer organization that identifies the designer and certifies that they have met certain qualifications and requires that stamp to be used on all drawings and documents submitted to any government agency to January 1, 2018, instead of 2014. It also requires that interior designers use a written contract with specific information included.
Now, it is required that the judgment creditor omit the name of the judgment debtor on the renewal if their liability ceased.
SB 652 (DeSaulnier) Real property disclosures: construction defect litigation This new law revises the transfer disclosure form that is mandatory during the transfer of residential property to also have the transferor disclose to a potential transferee specified claims for damages SB 328 (Knight) Counties: public works contracts by the seller. This new law authorizes, until January 1, 2018, counties to use a construction manager at-risk construc- SB 666 (Steinberg) Employment: compensation tion contract for projects in excess of $1,000,000 This new law provides for a suspension or revocaand be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. tion of an employer’s business license for retaliation against employees and others on the basis of citiSB 377 (Lieu) Public works: project determina- zenship and immigration status, and establishes a tions: wage and penalty assessments civil penalty up to $10,000 per violation. This new law gives the Director of Industrial Relations a quasi-legislative authority in determining SB 679 (Berryhill) Licensees: reporting requirecoverage of projects or types of work under pre- ments vailing wage requirements and provides that final This new law makes it a requirement for licensees of determination on any appeal is subject to judicial the Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surreview. veyors to report any civil action settlement or administrative action resulting in a settlement against SB 390 (Wright) Failure to Remit to Employee the licensee in any action alleging fraud, deceit, Wage Withholdings misrepresentation, breach or violation of contract, This new law provides that it is illegal for an em- negligence, incompetence, or recklessness by the ployer to willfully, or with the intent to defraud, fail licensee in the practice of professional engineering to remit withholdings from an employee’s wages or land surveying if the amount of the settlement pursuant to local, state or federal law to the proper is more than $50,000 to the Board. In addition, the agency, and also provides that if an employer fails amount of an award from a judgment or binding to remit $500 or more in wage withholdings, the arbitration for reporting the same items is now employer’s violation is a misdemeanor and shall be $25,000 rather than the prior $50,000. punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period of not more than one year, by a fine of not SB 770 (Jackson) Paid Family Leave more than $1,000, or both. This new law expands the type of family members for whom an employee may seek wage replaceSB 435 (Padilla) Compensation: meal and rest or ment benefits under the Paid Family Leave and recovery periods goes into effect July 1, 2014. This new law clarifies existing law regarding the meal or rest periods and adds “recovery period” a SB 776 (Corbett) Public works: prevailing wage cool down period afforded an employee to prevent rates: employer payment credits heat illness, to the statutes and discusses compen- This new law establishes additional restrictions on sation for the employee if those breaks are taken credit granted against the obligation to pay prevailaway from the employee. ing wages for employer payments made to monitor and enforce public works laws. SB 462 (Monning) Employment: compensation This new law changes the statute from awarding SB 822 (Committee on Business, Professions attorney’s fees and costs to the prevailing party and Economic Development) Professions and if there is an action brought for nonpayment of vocations wages, fringe benefits, health and welfare or pen- This new law relates to delinquency fees regardsion fund contributions. Now, attorney’s fees and ing the renewal application under the Contractors’ costs will only be awarded to the employer as the License Law and creates a retired registration catprevailing party if the employee brought the action egory and fee for geologists or geophysicists. It also in bad faith. allows a fictitious business name statement to be signed by either party to a marriage as well as many SB 551 (Gaines) Renewal and execution of judg- other things outside of the construction industry. ments: judgment debtor This new law amends the rules governing renew- Source: Construction News from Abdulaziz, Grossbart als of monetary judgments. With the prior rules, & Rudman the renewal for judgment had to include all judgment debtors, even if they no longer had liability.
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Interested in a career in the building trades? There is a critical shortage of construction workers. Over 1 million new jobs will be created nationally in the next seven years, with 2,500 of them in Santa Barbara and Ventura in the next three years. California construction workers earn an average of $24 an hour and journey-level workers earn $70,000-plus a year!
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We have moved! Please save our new shop address, mailing address and telephone numbers for your records: Delta Welding and Fabrication, Inc. Shop: 36 Aero Camino - Goleta, CA 93117 Mailing: PO Box 92025 - Santa Barbara, CA 93190 Phone: 805-685-8008 Fax: 805-685-3223 Website: www.delta-fabrication.com Emails: andrew@delta-fabrication.com kim@delta-fabrication.com We appreciate your business!
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If you are an employer who wishes to obtain assistance from Cal/OSHA Consultation, or want to learn more about what services are available, you can do so by calling the toll-free assistance number. 1(800) 963-9424 If you want to arrange an on-site visit or obtain technical information, you can contact the Cal/OSHA Consultation area office nearest your workplace or you can email us at InfoCons@dir. ca.gov. MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN COMPLIANCE
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REDUCE YOUR WORKERS’ COMP INSURANCE COSTS The SBCA and 25 Builder’s Exchanges in California have joined to form the Golden State Builders Exchange (GSBE). Participation in this group insurance program may significantly reduce the cost of your workers’ compensation premiums over a State Compensation Insurance Fund individual policy. Qualifying SBCA members are eligible for a 6% discount. Ask to be placed into the SBCA Group 821. Please call the SBCA office for more information and conversion form. If you are already with State Fund, please call us or your broker to see if you qualify for this group program.
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Board of Directors 2013 John Holehouse President Jack Martin 1st Vice President Paulo Sitolini 2nd Vice President Dan George Treasurer Peter Novak Parliamentarian Patrick Foster David James Jon Kenney Brian Larkowski William Mace Mark Magid Robert Mislang Rodney Utt
Executive Director Karin Perissinotto karin@sbcontractors.org Administrative Assistant April Ford april@sbcontractors.org
Santa Barbara Contractors Association 914 A Santa Barbara Street P. O. Box 23409 Santa Barbara, CA 93121 805.884.1100 Phone 805.884.1108 Fax info@sbcontractors.org www.sbcontractors.org www.builtgreensb.org
The Santa Barbara Contractors Association Newsletter is published weekly by the Santa Barbara Contractors Association, Inc. Editorial and advertising offices are located at 914 A Santa Barbara Street, P.O. Box 23409, Santa Barbara, CA 93121. Office 805-884-1100, Fax 805-884-1108, Email info@sbcontractors. org. A subscription is included in the annual membership dues. The newsletter is distributed to more than 600 local businesses and agencies. Articles appearing in this newsletter are presented as a public service and may not reflect the opinion of the publisher, its board of directors or its members. Please send comments regarding the newsletter to info@sbcontractors.org.