Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the State Contractors' Board. (Chapter 624 of NRS) Section 2 of this bill authorizes the Board to issue a restricted license that authorizes a person to perform certain work of a type for which a contractor's license is required, within the scope and monetary limit of the restricted license, to a person who satisfies certain requirements, which include, without limitation, the requirement to have obtained certain experience and, within the year immediately preceding the application, to have completed a course in business counseling or a similar curriculum. Existing regulations establish a classification B license in the branch of general building and the subclassification B-7, which authorizes a person who holds such a license to perform the remodeling and improvement of an existing, detached, stand-alone single-family residence or single-family residential unit within a structure that does not extend more than three stories above the ground and one story below the ground. (NAC 624.160, 624.170) Existing regulations provide that a subclassification B-7 license does not authorize a person to increase the existing enclosed space of the residential structure. (NAC 624.170) Section 2 provides that a restricted license may only be issued in a classification or subclassification which authorizes the holder to perform the type of work for which the holder of a subclassification B-7 license is authorized to perform under existing regulations. Section 2 additionally authorizes the holder of a restricted license to enter into a contract for a construction project that involves one or more building trades or crafts, subject to certain limitations. Section 2 sets forth certain bonding requirements for applicants for a restricted license and authorizes a person who has held such a license for not less than 2 years to apply for a contractor's license that is not a restricted license under certain circumstances. Under section 2, the requirements generally applicable to the issuance and renewal of a contractor's license do not apply to the issuance and renewal of a restricted license, with certain exceptions. Rather, sections 2 and 3 of this bill require the Board, on or before January 1, 2027, to adopt regulations necessary to provide for the issuance and renewal of a restricted license. The regulations are required to, among other things: (1) establish the monetary limit of a restricted license, which must be $7,000, including labor and materials, or a greater amount that the Board determines to be appropriate; (2) set forth certain application requirements and procedures for the issuance and renewal of a restricted license; and (3) establish reasonable fees associated with the issuance and renewal of a restricted license.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 624.220
BDR: 624.220