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Bill	Postsecondary education: Small Business Procurement and Contract Act.	Existing law, the Small Business Procurement and Contract Act, permits a state agency to award a contract for goods, services, or information technology with a value of between $5,000 and $250,000 to a certified small business, including a microbusiness and a disabled veteran business enterprise, without complying with specified competitive bidding requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 173	California AB 173 (20132014)	bill	Postsecondary education: Small Business Procurement and Contract Act.	enacted	Weber	8	25	6	2013-01-24	2013-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/456df6ea-f4ea-4bcc-bc63-575e8f147ccf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB173	4dc6fb2e2bb4df60a1f1b774633eab80b7b33a6397558c6284810971635ba9be	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 173 (20132014) — Postsecondary education: Small Business Procurement and Contract Act.

Existing law, the Small Business Procurement and Contract Act, permits a state agency to award a contract for goods, services, or information technology with a value of between $5,000 and $250,000 to a certified small business, including a microbusiness and a disabled veteran business enterprise, without complying with specified competitive bidding requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 01/24/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/24/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/09/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/23/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/09/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB173 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/23/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 173 WEBER Assembly Third Reading — 60–13 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB173 Weber By Galgiani — 27–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Governmental Organization. — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Weber — primary (person)
• Price — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-01-25 From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
• 2013-02-07 Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2013-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2013-04-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2013-05-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-13 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1562.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 13. Page 1653.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-06 Referred to Coms. on ED. and G.O. referral-committee
• 2013-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on G.O. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-08-12 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2013-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 1890.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-19 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2013-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
• 2013-09-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-09-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 262, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/456df6ea-f4ea-4bcc-bc63-575e8f147ccf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).