---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public contracts: public entities: project labor agreements."
description: "Existing law sets forth the requirements for the solicitation and evaluation of bids and the awarding of contracts by public entities and authorizes a public entity to use, enter into, or require contractors to enter into, a project labor agreement for a construction project if the agreement includes specified taxpayer protection provisions. Existing law also provides that if a charter provision, initiative, or ordinance of a charter city prohibits the governing board's consideration of a project labor agreement for a project to be awarded by the city, or prohibits the governing board from considering whether to allocate funds to a city-funded project covered by such an agreement, state funding or financial assistance may not be used to support that project, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 829"
citation: "California SB 829 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public contracts: public entities: project labor agreements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rubio"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 38
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2012-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d34c1bf-ccf5-4310-9f56-47dc87a82d6f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB829"
source_hash: "a4c8331e0caccb97d55c824a3d48f49e0d52933e31cf6bee147bdfd2729e8179"
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 829 (20112012) — Public contracts: public entities: project labor agreements.

Existing law sets forth the requirements for the solicitation and evaluation of bids and the awarding of contracts by public entities and authorizes a public entity to use, enter into, or require contractors to enter into, a project labor agreement for a construction project if the agreement includes specified taxpayer protection provisions. Existing law also provides that if a charter provision, initiative, or ordinance of a charter city prohibits the governing board's consideration of a project labor agreement for a project to be awarded by the city, or prohibits the governing board from considering whether to allocate funds to a city-funded project covered by such an agreement, state funding or financial assistance may not be used to support that project, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB829&version=20110SB82999INT)
2. **02/23/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB829&version=20110SB82994AMD)
3. **03/14/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB829&version=20110SB82993AMD)
4. **03/24/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB829&version=20110SB82998AMD)
5. **04/09/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB829&version=20110SB82992AMD)
6. **04/26/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB829&version=20110SB82990CHP)
7. **05/03/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB829&version=20110SB82997AMD)
8. **05/31/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB829&version=20110SB82996AMD)
9. **07/01/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB829&version=20110SB82995AMD)
10. **SB829** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB829)
11. **04/20/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB829&version=20110SB82991ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 829 Rubio Senate Third Reading By WILLIAMS — **50–23** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **11–4** (pass) · lower
- Be referred to Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB829 Rubio Concurrence — **25–13** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **23–15** (pass) · upper
- From committee: That the Assembly Amendments be concurred in. — **6–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rubio — primary (person)
- Alejo — coauthor (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Atkins — coauthor (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Bonilla — coauthor (person)
- Butler — coauthor (person)
- Campos — coauthor (person)
- De León — coauthor (person)
- Eng — coauthor (person)
- Hayashi — principal coauthor (person)
- Hill — coauthor (person)
- John A. Pérez — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Ma — coauthor (person)
- Padilla — coauthor (person)
- Solorio — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Williams — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2011-03-10** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-24** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-03-31** Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-13** Set for hearing April 27.
- **2011-05-02** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 766.) (April 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-05-06** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2011-05-16** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2011-05-20** Set for hearing May 26.
- **2011-05-27** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3. Page 1122.) (May 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 15. Page 1264.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-16** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2011-07-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-07-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-17** Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2012-02-23** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-02-27** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-01** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 1). Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2012-03-13** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (March 13). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-03-14** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-03-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (March 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-03-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-04-09** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-09** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-04-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 50. Noes 23. Page 4343.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-04-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2012-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-16** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 3165.) Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2012-04-18** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2012-04-18** From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 3. Page 3206.) `committee-passage`
- **2012-04-19** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 3218.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:15 p.m.
- **2012-04-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-04-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 11, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d34c1bf-ccf5-4310-9f56-47dc87a82d6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).