Existing law prescribes various requirements regarding the formation, content, and enforcement of state and local public contracts. Existing law applicable to state public contracts generally requires that the resolution of claims related to those contracts be subject to arbitration. Existing law applicable to local agency contracts prescribes a process for the resolution of claims related to those contracts of $375,000 or less.
California AB 626 (20152016) — Public contracts: claim resolution.
Existing law prescribes various requirements regarding the formation, content, and enforcement of state and local public contracts. Existing law applicable to state public contracts generally requires that the resolution of claims related to those contracts be subject to arbitration. Existing law applicable to local agency contracts prescribes a process for the resolution of claims related to those contracts of $375,000 or less.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–2 (pass) · lower
AB 626 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
AB 626 LOW Assembly Third Reading — 55–24 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Chiu — primary (person)
Anderson — coauthor (person)
Cannella — coauthor (person)
Frazier — coauthor (person)
Gaines — coauthor (person)
Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
Low — author (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2015-02-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2015-02-25 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
2015-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
2015-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-05-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2015-05-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2015-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2015-06-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2015-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 24. Page 1868.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2015-06-18 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2015-07-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2016-06-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
2016-06-15 Withdrawn from committee.
2016-06-15 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2016-06-16 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5313.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2016-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2016-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6434.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2016-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2016-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 810, Statutes of 2016.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1e021f86-2b1e-49d3-afac-6e8619ca801b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).