republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1386.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprise procurement."
description: "Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, water, and telephone corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1386"
citation: "California AB 1386 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Women", "minority", "and disabled veteran business enterprise procurement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradford"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2011-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7145d38-c864-495a-bf9c-85c09f63d2a9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1386"
source_hash: "bbd4b1987c626267a80b543c451059b82ca976e34511aca7379495a03cace4c7"
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 1386 (20112012) — Women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprise procurement.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical, gas, water, and telephone corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to establish rules for all public utilities, subject to control by the Legislature.

## 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=201120120AB1386&version=20110AB138699INT)
2. **03/31/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1386&version=20110AB138698AMD)
3. **06/13/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1386&version=20110AB138697AMD)
4. **10/03/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1386&version=20110AB138695CHP)
5. **AB1386** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1386)
6. **09/06/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1386&version=20110AB138696ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1386 BRADFORD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **55–20** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1386 Bradford By Lieu — **26–11** (pass) · upper
- AB 1386 BRADFORD Assembly Third Reading — **53–21** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bradford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2011-03-31** Referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 21. Page 1467.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-16** Re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C. `referral-committee`
- **2011-07-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-15** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2011-08-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 2082.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 20. Page 2728.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 443, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7145d38-c864-495a-bf9c-85c09f63d2a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).