California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency

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Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency
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Agency headquarters at the Bank of the West Tower
Agency overview
FormedJuly 1, 2013 (2013-07-01)
Preceding agency
Jurisdiction Government of California
Headquarters Sacramento, California
Employees7,970 [1]
Annual budget$5.78 billion (2023) [1]
Agency executive
  • Tad Egawa, Acting Secretary [2]
Website bcsh.ca.gov

The Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency (BCSH) is the California government cabinet-level agency that assists and educates consumers regarding the licensing, regulation, and enforcement of professionals and businesses. [3] The agency is headquartered at the Bank of the West Tower in Sacramento.

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Organization

Departments

Commissions

History

The agency was first formed in 2013 under Governor Jerry Brown following the splitting of the California State Transportation Agency from the California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency in the previous year, with several non-transportation-related departments from the California State and Consumer Services Agency being sorted under the new agency.

Proposed split

In 2025, as part of the reorganization of the BCSH within the budget, Governor Gavin Newsom proposed spinning off the California Department of Housing and Community Development, along with the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, California Housing Finance Agency and the Civil Rights Department, into a separate cabinet-level superagency, the California Housing and Homelessness Agency (CHHA). [4] [5] [6] The proposal would also rename the remaining agency as the Business and Consumer Services Agency (BCSA).

References

  1. 1 2 "CA.gov - EBudget". State of California.
  2. ↑ "California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency". Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency.
  3. ↑ "About Us". California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
  4. ↑ "BCSH - Reorganization". bcsh.ca.gov. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  5. ↑ "CSAC Supports Proposed Reorg to Create State Agency Focused on Housing and Homelessness". California State Association of Counties. Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  6. ↑ "GRP 1: Governor's reorganization plan: reorganization of executive branch of state government. | Digital Democracy". calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org. Retrieved 2025-05-14.


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