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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public contracts: local agencies: negotiations."
+description: "Existing law relating to public contracts requires local agencies, including cities and counties, to comply with specified procedures for public contracting for public construction."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "SB 331"
+citation: "California SB 331 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public contracts: local agencies: negotiations."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mendoza"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2015-02-23"
+last_action: "2015-10-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8624b195-895f-4c96-941a-0fc8887ced30"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB331"
+source_hash: "fb0433a527e418e9c1adc2764764a02b3605a4806f536b4268f393579cfbba43"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California SB 331 (20152016) — Public contracts: local agencies: negotiations.
+
+Existing law relating to public contracts requires local agencies, including cities and counties, to comply with specified procedures for public contracting for public construction.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/23/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB331&version=20150SB33199INT)
+2. **04/06/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB331&version=20150SB33198AMD)
+3. **04/22/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB331&version=20150SB33197AMD)
+4. **06/23/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB331&version=20150SB33196AMD)
+5. **07/13/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB331&version=20150SB33195AMD)
+6. **08/17/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB331&version=20150SB33194AMD)
+7. **10/09/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB331&version=20150SB33192CHP)
+8. **SB331** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB331)
+9. **09/10/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB331&version=20150SB33193ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Unfinished Business SB331 Mendoza Concurrence — **22–15** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading — **25–14** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–4** (pass) · lower
+- SB 331 Mendoza Senate Third Reading By GONZALEZ — **48–29** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mendoza — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-23** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2015-02-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
+- **2015-03-05** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-21** Set for hearing April 29.
+- **2015-04-22** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 815.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-05-08** Set for hearing May 18.
+- **2015-05-18** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2015-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 14. Page 1066.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2015-06-11** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-06-23** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 4.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-07-13** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-15** July 15 hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2015-08-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-08-19** August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
+- **2015-08-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-08-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-09-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 48. Noes 29. Page 2969.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-09-08** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2015-09-10** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 22. Noes 15. Page 2673.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2015-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:45 p.m.
+- **2015-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 714, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8624b195-895f-4c96-941a-0fc8887ced30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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