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Bill	Employment: contractors: sufficient funds.	Existing law prohibits a person or entity from entering into a contract or agreement for labor or services with specified types of contractors if the person or entity knows or should know that the contract or agreement does not include funds sufficient to allow the contractor to comply with all applicable local, state, and federal laws or regulations governing the labor or services to be provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1855	California AB 1855 (20112012)	bill	Employment: contractors: sufficient funds.	enacted	Torres	8	25	6	2012-02-22	2012-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/5d20086e-6e83-4c99-a95c-d5388ace7785	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1855	57645a4388670e0e9cac8523e5fbcf653a8fbebf87a0f8a1ed7df0992b6a57d4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1855 (20112012) — Employment: contractors: sufficient funds.

Existing law prohibits a person or entity from entering into a contract or agreement for labor or services with specified types of contractors if the person or entity knows or should know that the contract or agreement does not include funds sufficient to allow the contractor to comply with all applicable local, state, and federal laws or regulations governing the labor or services to be provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/07/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/25/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/30/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1855 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 1855 TORRES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–23 (pass) · lower
• AB 1855 TORRES Assembly Third Reading — 52–23 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1855 Torres By Vargas — 25–13 (pass) · upper
• Be referred to Committee on Labor and Employment. — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Torres — primary (person)
• Vargas — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-22 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2012-03-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2012-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on RLS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-12 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on L. & E. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2012-05-03 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4974.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 23. Page 5171.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-14 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2012-06-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-16 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 4649.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 23. Page 6241.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 813, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5d20086e-6e83-4c99-a95c-d5388ace7785. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).