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Bill	Public contracting: conflicts of interest: exemption.	Existing law regulates the acquisition by the state of goods or services by contract. A provision of that existing law prohibits an officer or employee in the state civil service or other appointed state official, for compensation or with a personal financial interest, to engage in any employment, activity, or enterprise that is funded, or sponsored and funded, by any state agency or department through or by a state contract, unless required to do so as a condition of the officer's or employee's regular state employment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2396	California AB 2396 (20172018)	bill	Public contracting: conflicts of interest: exemption.	enacted	Bigelow	6	23	5	2018-02-14	2018-08-27	openstates	ocd-bill/b75489c5-cc3e-4925-a7e2-f8166f7b5305	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2396	d186815a9ad39d32c391ec5898ccf253c9dfc5ca07b848361f6b71bf6c3c181e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2396 (20172018) — Public contracting: conflicts of interest: exemption.

Existing law regulates the acquisition by the state of goods or services by contract. A provision of that existing law prohibits an officer or employee in the state civil service or other appointed state official, for compensation or with a personal financial interest, to engage in any employment, activity, or enterprise that is funded, or sponsored and funded, by any state agency or department through or by a state contract, unless required to do so as a condition of the officer's or employee's regular state employment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/27/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2396 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/08/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2396 BIGELOW Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bigelow — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2018-03-05 Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2018-03-22 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
• 2018-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2018-04-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-04-18 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
• 2018-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5215.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2018-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-21 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5166.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-07 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2018-08-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-08-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-08-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 215, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b75489c5-cc3e-4925-a7e2-f8166f7b5305. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).