---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public contracts: Small Business Procurement and Contract Act."
description: "(1) The Small Business Procurement and Contract Act permits a state agency to award a contract for goods, services, or information technology with a value of between $5,000 and $100,000 to a certified small business, including a microbusiness and a disabled veteran business enterprise, without complying with specified competitive bidding requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 31"
citation: "California AB 31 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public contracts: Small Business Procurement and Contract Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Price"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2008-12-01"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e688852-8a94-42ee-a71a-8a714cb8bd2e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB31"
source_hash: "16d9651ce22364d53b20963fc64c4e8d83e37d8314922a39d11cfda296786481"
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 31 (20092010) — Public contracts: Small Business Procurement and Contract Act.

(1) The Small Business Procurement and Contract Act permits a state agency to award a contract for goods, services, or information technology with a value of between $5,000 and $100,000 to a certified small business, including a microbusiness and a disabled veteran business enterprise, without complying with specified competitive bidding requirements.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **12/01/08 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB31&version=20090AB3199INT)
2. **07/16/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB31&version=20090AB3198AMD)
3. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB31&version=20090AB3196CHP)
4. **AB31** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB31)
5. **08/31/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB31&version=20090AB3197ENR)

## Votes

- AB 31 Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB31 Price — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 31 PRICE Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Price — primary (person)
- Denham — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2008-12-01** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2008-12-02** From printer. May be heard in committee January 1.
- **2009-02-05** Referred to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-24** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-03-31** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 31). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-29** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1825.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-11** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-23** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 13). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-16** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1929.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2752.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-02** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 212, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e688852-8a94-42ee-a71a-8a714cb8bd2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).