---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public contracts: authorized agent: limitations."
description: "Existing law governs the bidding and awarding of public contracts by public entities, as defined. Existing law makes it a crime for a public official, as specified, to ask, receive, or agree to receive, any bribe, upon an understanding that their official vote, opinion, judgment, or action will be influenced thereby."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 34"
citation: "California SB 34 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public contracts: authorized agent: limitations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Umberg"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 43
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2020-12-07"
last_action: "2022-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ef2263b-6795-4c32-8c30-8f18a6971136"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34"
source_hash: "0c19dc39fe36bbb57dd7fe425079512509d0f96457847ec85a3000c705244067"
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 34 (20212022) — Public contracts: authorized agent: limitations.

Existing law governs the bidding and awarding of public contracts by public entities, as defined. Existing law makes it a crime for a public official, as specified, to ask, receive, or agree to receive, any bribe, upon an understanding that their official vote, opinion, judgment, or action will be influenced thereby.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/07/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34&version=20210SB3499INT)
2. **02/24/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34&version=20210SB3498AMD)
3. **04/06/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34&version=20210SB3497AMD)
4. **04/15/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34&version=20210SB3496AMD)
5. **05/20/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34&version=20210SB3495AMD)
6. **05/26/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34&version=20210SB3494AMD)
7. **06/13/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34&version=20210SB3493AMD)
8. **08/08/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34&version=20210SB3492AMD)
9. **09/13/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34&version=20210SB3490CHP)
10. **SB34** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34)
11. **09/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34&version=20210SB3491ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — **4–2** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB34 Umberg et al. Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 34 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Daly — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Umberg — primary (person)
- Daly — principal coauthor (person)
- Min — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-07** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-12-08** From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 7.
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03** Re-referred to Coms. on ED. and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** Set for hearing March 24.
- **2021-04-05** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 604.) (March 24). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-06** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2021-04-15** April 22 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2021-04-15** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2021-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** Set for hearing May 3.
- **2021-05-04** May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2021-05-14** Set for hearing May 20.
- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1180.) (May 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-26** Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Umberg.
- **2022-01-06** From inactive file on motion of Senator Hertzberg.
- **2022-01-06** Ordered to second reading.
- **2022-01-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-01-24** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 4. Page 2801.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-01-24** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-05** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-06** Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-13** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-08** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-08** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-08-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5884.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-15** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-16** Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-16** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on G.O. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 4835.) Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-17** From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 4884.) `committee-passage`
- **2022-08-29** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5224.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 297, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ef2263b-6795-4c32-8c30-8f18a6971136`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).