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Bill	Public contracts: Los Angeles County: regional interoperable communications system.	Under the State Contract Act, the erection, construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of any state structure, building, road, or other state improvement of any kind that will exceed a specified amount, is accomplished by awarding a contract to the lowest responsible bidder. Similar provisions exist for local agency contract projects.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 946	California AB 946 (20112012)	bill	Public contracts: Los Angeles County: regional interoperable communications system.	enacted	Bonnie Lowenthal	8	39	7	2011-02-18	2011-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/62c5b3f0-b9fa-4b9a-beb8-a47002cef01f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB946	b6843c2c71b689d14f70279af556e25c0a45c9a458b7d0df946869cba851c02a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 946 (20112012) — Public contracts: Los Angeles County: regional interoperable communications system.

Under the State Contract Act, the erection, construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of any state structure, building, road, or other state improvement of any kind that will exceed a specified amount, is accomplished by awarding a contract to the lowest responsible bidder. Similar provisions exist for local agency contract projects.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/12/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/16/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/31/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/02/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB946 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/19/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 946 BUTLER Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 946 LOWENTHAL Concurrence - Urgency Added — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• amendments be concurred in. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB946 Bonnie Lowenthal By Strickland Urgency Clause — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonnie Lowenthal — primary (person)
• Butler — author (person)
• Davis — coauthor (person)
• John A. Pérez — coauthor (person)
• Knight — coauthor (person)
• Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — coauthor (person)
• Runner — coauthor (person)
• Smyth — principal coauthor (person)
• Strickland — coauthor (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.
• 2011-03-10 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-04-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 910.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-04-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-04-25 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2011-06-15 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-06-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-07-07 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-12 From consent calendar.
• 2011-07-12 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-07-12 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-14 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2011-08-16 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
• 2011-08-18 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2011-08-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-08-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-25 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2011-08-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2011-08-25 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2011-08-25 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 2048.)
• 2011-08-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-31 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-06 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2315.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-07 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2978.)
• 2011-09-07 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2011-09-08 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3036.)
• 2011-09-08 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (September 8). committee-passage
• 2011-09-09 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3178.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 400, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62c5b3f0-b9fa-4b9a-beb8-a47002cef01f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).