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Bill	Public contracts: bids.	Existing law prohibits, except in specified circumstances, a state agency, political subdivision, municipal corporation, district, or public officer responsible for letting a public works contract from drafting bid specifications for that contract in a manner that limits the bidding to any one concern or product, unless the specification is followed by the words "or equal." Existing law requires that these bid specifications provide a period of time prior to or after, or prior to and after, the award of the contract to allow the contractor to submit data that demonstrates that a concern or product to be provided under the contract is equal to the concern or product identified in the bid specification.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1086	California AB 1086 (20092010)	bill	Public contracts: bids.	enacted	Miller	8	30	5	2009-02-27	2009-08-06	openstates	ocd-bill/077596f1-ddd9-4309-89e3-0c6a847b4700	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1086	55421b63ca559154d1c930a308f1d58d3957da0adabb463481cb6b2343046548	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1086 (20092010) — Public contracts: bids.

Existing law prohibits, except in specified circumstances, a state agency, political subdivision, municipal corporation, district, or public officer responsible for letting a public works contract from drafting bid specifications for that contract in a manner that limits the bidding to any one concern or product, unless the specification is followed by the words "or equal." Existing law requires that these bid specifications provide a period of time prior to or after, or prior to and after, the award of the contract to allow the contractor to submit data that demonstrates that a concern or product to be provided under the contract is equal to the concern or product identified in the bid specification.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/14/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/27/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/04/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/18/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/06/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1086 (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/21/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — pass (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #13 AB1086 Miller — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1086 MILLER Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Miller — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-04-13 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2009-04-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2009-04-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2009-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2009-05-05 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-05-14 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 12). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-05-18 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-05-21 Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
• 2009-05-26 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-01 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1820.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-11 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-06-23 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-06-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-07-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-07-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-07-09 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-09 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-07-16 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1767.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-07-16 In Assembly. To enrollment.
• 2009-07-30 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2009-08-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-08-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 132, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/077596f1-ddd9-4309-89e3-0c6a847b4700. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).