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Bill	Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act: bidding practices.	The Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act requires the entity taking bids for the construction of any public work or improvement to specify that any person making a bid or offer to perform the work shall, in his or her bid or offer, include specified information, including the name and location of the place of business of each subcontractor who will perform work or labor or render service to the prime contractor in or about the work or improvement.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 44	California AB 44 (20132014)	bill	Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act: bidding practices.	enacted	Buchanan	8	26	6	2012-12-18	2013-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/97d90a5c-c252-46e0-9445-7970f04e3bb0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB44	d38bb44ecd50e68b4a339be656b5b27cf9e9da26f0fa9ae43f641a4a2aa063cf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 44 (20132014) — Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act: bidding practices.

The Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act requires the entity taking bids for the construction of any public work or improvement to specify that any person making a bid or offer to perform the work shall, in his or her bid or offer, include specified information, including the name and location of the place of business of each subcontractor who will perform work or labor or render service to the prime contractor in or about the work or improvement.

Version chain

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

1. 12/18/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/04/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/06/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/20/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/09/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB44 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/27/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 44 BUCHANAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 44 BUCHANAN Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Buchanan — primary (person)
• Frazier — coauthor (person)
• Linder — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-12-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-12-19 From printer. May be heard in committee January 18.
• 2013-01-07 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-01-31 Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-04 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
• 2013-04-08 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-04-10 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-04-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1007.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-04-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-02 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2013-05-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (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 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2013-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1844.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2644.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2013-09-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-09-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 258, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/97d90a5c-c252-46e0-9445-7970f04e3bb0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).