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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Best value procurement: school districts."
+description: "Existing law establishes a pilot program authorizing the Los Angeles Unified School District to use, before December 31, 2025, a best value procurement method for bid evaluation and selection for public projects that exceed $1,000,000. The pilot program establishes various requirements applicable to the use of the best value procurement method under the authorization. Existing law requires the school district to submit a report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on the use of the best value procurement method as provided and in accordance with a specified schedule. These provisions are repealed on January 1, 2026."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "AB 361"
+citation: "California AB 361 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Bestvalueprocurement", "schooldistricts"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Schultz"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-01-30"
+last_action: "2025-10-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5b4b682-a6e2-4937-baee-f6f8cc297b6b"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB361"
+source_hash: "05866802276f9cdb4e7f99a9f46a6e27db97834e894368507ee0e9251f62f486"
+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 AB 361 (20252026) — Best value procurement: school districts.
+
+Existing law establishes a pilot program authorizing the Los Angeles Unified School District to use, before December 31, 2025, a best value procurement method for bid evaluation and selection for public projects that exceed $1,000,000. The pilot program establishes various requirements applicable to the use of the best value procurement method under the authorization. Existing law requires the school district to submit a report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on the use of the best value procurement method as provided and in accordance with a specified schedule. These provisions are repealed on January 1, 2026.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/30/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB361&version=20250AB36199INT)
+2. **03/03/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB361&version=20250AB36198AMD)
+3. **03/18/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB361&version=20250AB36197AMD)
+4. **05/28/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB361&version=20250AB36196AMD)
+5. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB361&version=20250AB36194CHP)
+6. **AB361** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB361)
+7. **09/05/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB361&version=20250AB36195ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 361 Schultz Assembly Third Reading — **70–3** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB361 Schultz By Pérez — **31–8** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **12–1** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Schultz — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-30** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-31** From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
+- **2025-02-18** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-04** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-05-28** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1756.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 3. Page 1821.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-11** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 2428.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2025-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 144, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5b4b682-a6e2-4937-baee-f6f8cc297b6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+