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Bill	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: contracting.	(1) Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, with specified powers and duties. Existing law requires a contract by the authority for a purchase of supplies, equipment, or materials with the purchase price exceeding $100,000 to be let to the lowest responsible bidder, or best value proposer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2440	California AB 2440 (20112012)	bill	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: contracting.	enacted	Bonnie Lowenthal	7	23	6	2012-02-24	2012-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/c4bba509-9e00-463c-b9ce-710ca3fb68ca	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2440	535b3cdaf5fa52d5817f3271178cd4090e33e375621f72e4b07f2c330e12299f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2440 (20112012) — Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: contracting.

(1) Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, with specified powers and duties. Existing law requires a contract by the authority for a purchase of supplies, equipment, or materials with the purchase price exceeding $100,000 to be let to the lowest responsible bidder, or best value proposer.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/28/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2440 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/27/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2440 Bonnie Lowenthal By Price — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Transportation. — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2440 LOWENTHAL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 55–20 (pass) · lower
• AB 2440 LOWENTHAL Assembly Third Reading — 54–20 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonnie Lowenthal — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-15 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and TRANS. referral-committee
• 2012-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2012-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 20. Page 5168.) 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 T. & H. referral-committee
• 2012-06-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4575.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 20. Page 6116.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 703, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c4bba509-9e00-463c-b9ce-710ca3fb68ca. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).