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Bill	Public contracts: prevailing wage requirements: violations.	Existing law generally requires that not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as specified, be paid to workers employed on a public work, as defined. Existing law requires a contractor or subcontractor to submit, to the state or political subdivision on whose behalf a public work is being performed, a penalty of not more than $50 per calendar day, and not less than $10 per calendar day except in certain cases of a good faith mistake, as provided and determined by the Labor Commissioner, for violations of these prevailing wage provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 551	California AB 551 (20112012)	bill	Public contracts: prevailing wage requirements: violations.	enacted	Campos	7	23	8	2011-02-16	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/d525b730-85fd-44f0-b910-9f380b51fae8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB551	0275a77d6b41c7f1884a2872dcc823d7718af7601894faffc8b7e97686ea9a6e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 551 (20112012) — Public contracts: prevailing wage requirements: violations.

Existing law generally requires that not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, as specified, be paid to workers employed on a public work, as defined. Existing law requires a contractor or subcontractor to submit, to the state or political subdivision on whose behalf a public work is being performed, a penalty of not more than $50 per calendar day, and not less than $10 per calendar day except in certain cases of a good faith mistake, as provided and determined by the Labor Commissioner, for violations of these prevailing wage provisions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/15/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/29/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB551 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 551 CAMPOS Assembly Third Reading — 50–26 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 551 CAMPOS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 51–26 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB551 Campos By Leno — 22–13 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — 5–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Campos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 26. Page 1471.) 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 L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2011-06-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 22). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 2137.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 26. Page 2887.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 677, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d525b730-85fd-44f0-b910-9f380b51fae8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).