republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-740.md

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Bill	Personal services contracts.	Existing law authorizes state agencies to use personal services contracts if specified standards are satisfied, including, among other things, the contract does not cause the displacement of civil service employees and the contract is awarded through a publicized, competitive bidding process. The State Personnel Board is required to review a proposed contract upon the request of an employee organization for compliance with those standards.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 740	California AB 740 (20112012)	bill	Personal services contracts.	enacted	Blumenfield	4	18	7	2011-02-17	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/9bd730f7-313f-40de-ba61-1ee27a14192d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB740	26eaf8eae3d107ce47ea927c4ac7460d12a36b27a49de47ffcc5cd734c33bdc5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 740 (20112012) — Personal services contracts.

Existing law authorizes state agencies to use personal services contracts if specified standards are satisfied, including, among other things, the contract does not cause the displacement of civil service employees and the contract is awarded through a publicized, competitive bidding process. The State Personnel Board is required to review a proposed contract upon the request of an employee organization for compliance with those standards.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB740 (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/08/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–5 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB740 Blumenfield By Lieu — 24–14 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 740 BLUMENFIELD Assembly Third Reading — 54–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Blumenfield — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2011-03-07 Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 19. Page 1463.) 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 G.O. referral-committee
• 2011-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 5.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-15 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-08-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 14. Page 2248.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-02 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2011-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 684, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9bd730f7-313f-40de-ba61-1ee27a14192d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).