---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Agency Public Construction Act: Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District."
description: "The Local Agency Public Construction Act requires a bridge and highway district to advertise for contracts in specified publications for all vessel repair, maintenance, and alteration work whenever the estimated expenditure exceeds $20,000 and for all other construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration work and for all insurance purchased by the district if the estimated expenditure exceeds $5,000. The act authorizes a bridge and highway district to contract without advertising or competitive bidding in case of emergency. The act requires a bridge and highway district to comply with specified emergency contracting procedures if the notice for bids to let a contract will not be given."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 622"
citation: "California SB 622 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local Agency Public Construction Act: Golden Gate Bridge", "Highway and Transportation District."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiener"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-02-17"
last_action: "2017-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01cabb27-22a3-4dca-a8ca-f7ebd4475089"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622"
source_hash: "0b04ee3e7bcb7e931fa13d4448ed3466902dda9f80f78c3c8d9b5853f07aa352"
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 622 (20172018) — Local Agency Public Construction Act: Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.

The Local Agency Public Construction Act requires a bridge and highway district to advertise for contracts in specified publications for all vessel repair, maintenance, and alteration work whenever the estimated expenditure exceeds $20,000 and for all other construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration work and for all insurance purchased by the district if the estimated expenditure exceeds $5,000. The act authorizes a bridge and highway district to contract without advertising or competitive bidding in case of emergency. The act requires a bridge and highway district to comply with specified emergency contracting procedures if the notice for bids to let a contract will not be given.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622&version=20170SB62299INT)
2. **04/17/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622&version=20170SB62298AMD)
3. **05/01/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622&version=20170SB62297AMD)
4. **05/11/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622&version=20170SB62296AMD)
5. **08/31/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622&version=20170SB62295AMD)
6. **09/30/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622&version=20170SB62293CHP)
7. **SB622** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622)
8. **09/08/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB622&version=20170SB62294ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd SB622 Wiener et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent Calendar # SB622 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 622 Wiener Senate Third Reading By TING — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wiener — primary (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- McGuire — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2017-04-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-18** April 18 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2017-04-19** Set for hearing April 25.
- **2017-05-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-01** Set for hearing May 9.
- **2017-05-10** From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 1021.) (May 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-05-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-05-11** Published May 11 at 9 p.m.
- **2017-05-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1148.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-05** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-07-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-09-05** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2956.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-05** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2017-09-06** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2017-09-07** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2584.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 396, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01cabb27-22a3-4dca-a8ca-f7ebd4475089`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).