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Bill	Public officers and employees: conflict of interest: contracts.	Existing law prohibits Members of the Legislature, state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members. Existing law identifies certain remote interests in contracts that are not subject to this prohibition and other situations in which an official is not deemed to be financially interested in a contract. Existing law makes a willful violation of this prohibition a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 704	California SB 704 (20152016)	bill	Public officers and employees: conflict of interest: contracts.	enacted	Gaines	8	27	6	2015-02-27	2015-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/bfad15f3-b7e6-4616-b9f5-598f48f82435	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB704	e70bfea76511b39f6d25799ddf1908cd12b7df6de76ad6f4ecd5f9785d3e6e67	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 704 (20152016) — Public officers and employees: conflict of interest: contracts.

Existing law prohibits Members of the Legislature, state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members. Existing law identifies certain remote interests in contracts that are not subject to this prohibition and other situations in which an official is not deemed to be financially interested in a contract. Existing law makes a willful violation of this prohibition a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/30/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/08/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/04/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB704 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #9 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 704 Gaines Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gaines — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-19 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2015-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-22 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2015-04-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 816.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-08 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2015-05-18 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2015-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1068.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2015-06-15 July 1 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-07-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2639.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-08-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2015-09-01 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2379.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
• 2015-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 495, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfad15f3-b7e6-4616-b9f5-598f48f82435. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).