---
type: "Bill"
title: "School facilities: design-build projects."
description: "Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2025, a school district governing board to enter into a design-build contract, as defined, in which factors in addition to price and cost may be considered in awarding a contract for the design and construction of a school facility that exceeds $1,000,000."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 743"
citation: "California SB 743 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School facilities: design-build projects."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hertzberg"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de7967b7-ed29-4b5f-813f-92ed7a7b28cb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB743"
source_hash: "2ba009d4f314b9f6e4c51977616c377ba2031d9b80e2a1f35bacc7f0ada291ed"
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 743 (20192020) — School facilities: design-build projects.

Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2025, a school district governing board to enter into a design-build contract, as defined, in which factors in addition to price and cost may be considered in awarding a contract for the design and construction of a school facility that exceeds $1,000,000.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB743&version=20190SB74399INT)
2. **03/27/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB743&version=20190SB74398AMD)
3. **04/29/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB743&version=20190SB74397AMD)
4. **09/06/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB743&version=20190SB74395CHP)
5. **SB743** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB743)
6. **08/21/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB743&version=20190SB74396ENR)

## Votes

- SB 743 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Smith — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hertzberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Set for hearing April 10.
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 650.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-29** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-29** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 962.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-07** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-19** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2753.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-20** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2019-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2019-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 275, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de7967b7-ed29-4b5f-813f-92ed7a7b28cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).