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| Bill | Commercial construction contracts: indemnity. | Existing law provides that provisions in construction contracts, as defined, that purport to indemnify the promisee against liability for damages for death or bodily injury to persons, injury to property, or any other loss arising from the sole negligence or willful misconduct of the promisee or the promisee's agents who are directly responsible to the promisee, or for defects in design furnished by those persons, are against public policy and are void and unenforceable. Existing law provides that provisions in construction contracts with a public agency that purport to impose on the contractor, or relieve the public agency from, liability for the active negligence of the public agency are void and unenforceable. Existing law excepts from these provisions agreements to indemnify with professional engineers, among others. Existing law prescribes different requirements and prohibitions for residential construction contracts entered on and after January 1, 2009. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20112012 | SB 474 | California SB 474 (20112012) |
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California SB 474 (20112012) — Commercial construction contracts: indemnity.
Existing law provides that provisions in construction contracts, as defined, that purport to indemnify the promisee against liability for damages for death or bodily injury to persons, injury to property, or any other loss arising from the sole negligence or willful misconduct of the promisee or the promisee's agents who are directly responsible to the promisee, or for defects in design furnished by those persons, are against public policy and are void and unenforceable. Existing law provides that provisions in construction contracts with a public agency that purport to impose on the contractor, or relieve the public agency from, liability for the active negligence of the public agency are void and unenforceable. Existing law excepts from these provisions agreements to indemnify with professional engineers, among others. Existing law prescribes different requirements and prohibitions for residential construction contracts entered on and after January 1, 2009.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 03/25/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 05/02/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 05/24/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 06/21/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 07/05/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 09/01/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- SB474 (committee substitute) — source
- 09/12/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Do pass as amended. — 6–3 (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — 3–2 (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business — 39–1 (pass) · upper
- SB 474 Evans Senate Third Reading By ATKINS — 69–1 (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — 22–13 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Evans — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2011-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction, reading-1 - 2011-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
- 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee - 2011-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee - 2011-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee - 2011-04-29 Set for hearing May 10.
- 2011-05-02 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee - 2011-05-09 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- 2011-05-11 Set for hearing May 12.
- 2011-05-12 Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 960.)
- 2011-05-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 2. Page 972.) (May 12).
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2011-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-2, reading-1 - 2011-05-24 Read third time and amended.
reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage - 2011-05-24 Ordered to second reading.
- 2011-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-2, reading-1 - 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 1216.) Ordered to the Assembly.
reading-3, reading-1, passage - 2011-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
reading-1 - 2011-06-09 Referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee - 2011-06-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee - 2011-07-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 28).
amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2011-07-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage - 2011-07-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-2, reading-1 - 2011-09-01 Read third time and amended. (Page 2769.)
reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage - 2011-09-01 Ordered to third reading.
- 2011-09-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 1. Page 2936.) Ordered to the Senate.
reading-3, reading-1, passage - 2011-09-07 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- 2011-09-08 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 1. Page 2401.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage - 2011-09-14 (Enrolled measure version corrected.)
- 2011-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature - 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 707, Statutes of 2011.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96b3cfe1-6195-4a08-9d5f-c76e858afcf7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).