Senate Committee sends landscape licensing bill to the floor with due‑pass recommendation

Senate Bill 865, introduced by the State Landscape Contractors Board, moved out of the Senate Committee on Labor and Business with a due‑pass recommendation on Feb. 25, 2025. Whitney, committee staff, summarized the bill as making three primary changes: expanding the type of work that applies when the board decides whether a landscape contracting business licensee is an independent contractor; creating an exception for persons or businesses installing ornamental water features if they are already licensed with the Construction Contractors Board; and removing a limitation on rescission rights tied to ownership or leasehold status of the real property.