republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010-special-session-4/ab-21.md

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Bill	State contracts.	(1) Existing law, with regard to certain state contracts, requires the awarding department to award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder meeting or making a good faith effort to meet specified statewide participation goals for disabled veteran business enterprises. Existing law requires that, if a bidder cites an approved utilization plan in response to the disabled veteran business enterprise participation requirements of a solicitation that calls for specified business participation, and the solicitation specifies higher participation goals than the utilization plan, the bidder shall meet the goals in the solicitation or make a good faith effort to do so.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010 Special Session 4	AB 21	California AB 21 (20092010 Special Session 4)	bill	State contracts.	enacted	Evans	5	21	3	2009-07-02	2009-07-28	openstates	ocd-bill/11b62e50-6213-4125-a664-4dc1725c56eb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920104AB21	7a35d66f7b517c2ddaa2d1a9060f126f25ee1443da6c473bb819e80b8ff75169	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 21 (20092010 Special Session 4) — State contracts.

(1) Existing law, with regard to certain state contracts, requires the awarding department to award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder meeting or making a good faith effort to meet specified statewide participation goals for disabled veteran business enterprises. Existing law requires that, if a bidder cites an approved utilization plan in response to the disabled veteran business enterprise participation requirements of a solicitation that calls for specified business participation, and the solicitation specifies higher participation goals than the utilization plan, the bidder shall meet the goals in the solicitation or make a good faith effort to do so.

Version chain

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

1. 07/02/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/23/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/28/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB21 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/28/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 21 EVANS Concurrence- Urgency Added Fourth Extraordinary Session — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 21 EVANS Assembly Third Reading Fourth Extraordinary Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB21 Evans — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Evans — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-07-02 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-07-06 From printer.
• 2009-07-06 Without reference to committee. referral-committee
• 2009-07-06 Ordered to second reading.
• 2009-07-06 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-09 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 2. Page 30.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-07-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-07-15 Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
• 2009-07-15 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-23 Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-07-23 Joint Rule 10.5 suspended.
• 2009-07-23 (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 43.)
• 2009-07-23 Senate Rule 29.3 suspended.
• 2009-07-23 (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 43.)
• 2009-07-23 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 58.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-07-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2009-07-23 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2009-07-23 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 2. Page 71.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-07-24 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2009-07-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-07-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 19, Statutes of 2009-10 Fourth Extraordinary Session.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/11b62e50-6213-4125-a664-4dc1725c56eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).