---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public contracts: county-owned buildings."
description: "The Local Agency Public Construction Act provides that for certain alteration or repair work upon county-owned buildings, counties containing a population of 2,000,000 or more are exempt from provisions of the Public Contract Code requiring repairs exceeding a specified amount upon public buildings to be done by contract if the cost is under $50,000."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 409"
citation: "California SB 409 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Publiccontracts", "county-ownedbuildings"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Archuleta"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-14"
last_action: "2025-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/adb5a21f-b13d-469b-b35b-8febc6206212"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB409"
source_hash: "f29a7332e56f9bef659651829cef3edc978e54731cea06475ef59b91bcd61b33"
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 409 (20252026) — Public contracts: county-owned buildings.

The Local Agency Public Construction Act provides that for certain alteration or repair work upon county-owned buildings, counties containing a population of 2,000,000 or more are exempt from provisions of the Public Contract Code requiring repairs exceeding a specified amount upon public buildings to be done by contract if the cost is under $50,000.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB409&version=20250SB40999INT)
2. **04/30/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB409&version=20250SB40998AMD)
3. **07/14/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB409&version=20250SB40996CHP)
4. **SB409** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB409)
5. **07/01/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB409&version=20250SB40997ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 409 Archuleta Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Archuleta — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-18** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Set for hearing May 7.
- **2025-04-30** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1038.) (May 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-28** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1269.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-05** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-19** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2341.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-27** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2025-07-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
- **2025-07-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 52, 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/adb5a21f-b13d-469b-b35b-8febc6206212`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).