republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-177.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public contracts: small businesses and disabled veteran business enterprises."
description: "(1) Existing law provides for various programs to encourage the participation of small businesses and disabled veteran business enterprises, as certified by the Department of General Services, in state agency contracts. Existing law revokes, for a specified period, the small business or microbusiness certification of a business that obtained the classification as a small business or microbusiness by reason of having furnished incorrect supporting information or withholding relevant information, and suspends that business from transacting with the state, as specified. Existing law extends the period of revocation and suspension for additional or subsequent violations and requires the business to pay specified costs to the state related to the contract."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 177"
citation: "California AB 177 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public contracts: small businesses and disabled veteran business enterprises."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ruskin"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 34
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2009-02-02"
last_action: "2010-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/404d13d0-1ed5-4463-89c5-a80a07f577c8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB177"
source_hash: "a96d571488e45cd08b422d72b97b3d3a2dba3e50f20b306481e381feb4bee88e"
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 AB 177 (20092010) — Public contracts: small businesses and disabled veteran business enterprises.

(1) Existing law provides for various programs to encourage the participation of small businesses and disabled veteran business enterprises, as certified by the Department of General Services, in state agency contracts. Existing law revokes, for a specified period, the small business or microbusiness certification of a business that obtained the classification as a small business or microbusiness by reason of having furnished incorrect supporting information or withholding relevant information, and suspends that business from transacting with the state, as specified. Existing law extends the period of revocation and suspension for additional or subsequent violations and requires the business to pay specified costs to the state related to the contract.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/02/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB177&version=20090AB17799INT)
2. **01/04/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB177&version=20090AB17796AMD)
3. **04/13/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB177&version=20090AB17798AMD)
4. **04/23/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB177&version=20090AB17797AMD)
5. **06/02/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB177&version=20090AB17795AMD)
6. **06/24/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB177&version=20090AB17794AMD)
7. **07/15/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB177&version=20090AB17793AMD)
8. **08/11/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB177&version=20090AB17792AMD)
9. **09/27/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB177&version=20090AB17790CHP)
10. **AB177** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB177)
11. **08/30/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB177&version=20090AB17791ENR)

## Votes

- AB 177 Ruskin Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 177 RUSKIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB177 Ruskin By Price — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Veterans Affairs. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ruskin — primary (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Block — coauthor (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Logue — coauthor (person)
- Negrete McLeod — coauthor (person)
- Price — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- V. Manuel Perez — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-02** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-03** From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
- **2009-04-13** Referred to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-15** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-04-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2010-01-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. `referral-committee`
- **2010-01-05** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (January 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-01-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-01-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-01-25** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 3861.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-01-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-04** Referred to Coms. on G.O. and V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2010-06-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-06-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on V.A. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-23** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 22). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-24** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-07-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-07-15** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-11** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-18** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4599.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-19** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6373.)
- **2010-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6464.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-09-03** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:45 p.m.
- **2010-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 342, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/404d13d0-1ed5-4463-89c5-a80a07f577c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).