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type: "Bill"
title: "Public contracts: University of California: California State University: domestic workers."
description: "(1) Existing law requires a state agency to comply with specified procedures in awarding agency contracts. Existing law, with specified exceptions, prohibits a state agency authorized to enter into contracts relating to public benefit programs from contracting for services provided by a call center that directly serves applicants for, recipients of, or enrollees in, those public benefit programs with a contractor or subcontractor unless that contractor or subcontractor certifies in its bid for the contract that the contract, and any subcontract performed under that contract, will be performed solely with workers employed in California. Existing law imposes a civil penalty, as provided, for knowingly providing false information in that certification. Existing law also requires the contract to include a clause providing for a right by the state to terminate the contract for noncompliance and specified penalties, if the contractor or subcontractor performs the contract or the subcontract with workers not employed in California during the life of the contract."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 848"
citation: "California AB 848 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public contracts: University of California: California State University: domestic workers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCarty"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-10-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8f9158f-6010-451c-aac6-524aa0316b41"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB848"
source_hash: "0235be91468c1b8ae4a0a6c8eb96160ea6b6954eb228b0c60acff9ed24b0a58f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 848 (20172018) — Public contracts: University of California: California State University: domestic workers.
(1) Existing law requires a state agency to comply with specified procedures in awarding agency contracts. Existing law, with specified exceptions, prohibits a state agency authorized to enter into contracts relating to public benefit programs from contracting for services provided by a call center that directly serves applicants for, recipients of, or enrollees in, those public benefit programs with a contractor or subcontractor unless that contractor or subcontractor certifies in its bid for the contract that the contract, and any subcontract performed under that contract, will be performed solely with workers employed in California. Existing law imposes a civil penalty, as provided, for knowingly providing false information in that certification. Existing law also requires the contract to include a clause providing for a right by the state to terminate the contract for noncompliance and specified penalties, if the contractor or subcontractor performs the contract or the subcontract with workers not employed in California during the life of the contract.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/16/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB848&version=20170AB84899INT)
2. **04/05/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB848&version=20170AB84898AMD)
3. **04/19/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB848&version=20170AB84897AMD)
4. **06/26/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB848&version=20170AB84896AMD)
5. **07/12/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB848&version=20170AB84895AMD)
6. **09/01/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB848&version=20170AB84894AMD)
7. **09/08/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB848&version=20170AB84893AMD)
8. **10/15/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB848&version=20170AB84891CHP)
9. **AB848** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB848)
10. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB848&version=20170AB84892ENR)
## Votes
- AB 848 MCCARTY Assembly Third Reading — **5918** (pass) · lower
- AB 848 McCarty Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **5919** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **143** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- McCarty — primary (person)
- Lara — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stone — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-19** 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`
- **2017-04-20** Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 3.) (May 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 18. Page 1778.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-08** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-08-21** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (September 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-08** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 6. Page 2782.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-13** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
- **2017-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 19. Page 3316.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2017-10-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 844, Statutes of 2017.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8f9158f-6010-451c-aac6-524aa0316b41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).