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type: "Bill"
title: "Public contracts: payment."
description: "Existing law until January 1, 2018, authorizes the retention proceeds withheld from any payment by an awarding entity, as described, from the original contractor, by the original contractor from any subcontractor, and by a subcontractor from any subcontractor to exceed 5% on specific projects where the director of the applicable department, as specified, has made, or the governing body of the public entity or designated official of the public entity has approved, a finding prior to the bid that the project is substantially complex and requires a higher retention and the department or public entity includes both this finding and the actual retention amount in the bid documents."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 92"
citation: "California AB 92 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public contracts: payment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonta"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56319620-fd12-4842-9f20-0a42fdd35e30"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB92"
source_hash: "d265256a1de04643ed3ebc3c801b7368295c51bedb3877b5d8dd71b8f295962f"
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 92 (20172018) — Public contracts: payment.
Existing law until January 1, 2018, authorizes the retention proceeds withheld from any payment by an awarding entity, as described, from the original contractor, by the original contractor from any subcontractor, and by a subcontractor from any subcontractor to exceed 5% on specific projects where the director of the applicable department, as specified, has made, or the governing body of the public entity or designated official of the public entity has approved, a finding prior to the bid that the project is substantially complex and requires a higher retention and the department or public entity includes both this finding and the actual retention amount in the bid documents.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/09/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB92&version=20170AB9299INT)
2. **07/10/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB92&version=20170AB9297CHP)
3. **AB92** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB92)
4. **06/21/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB92&version=20170AB9298ENR)
## Votes
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB92 — **330** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **120** (pass) · upper
- AB 92 BONTA Consent Calendar Second Day — **760** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bonta — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-10** From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1388.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-06-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1611.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-20** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2017-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 37, Statutes of 2017.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56319620-fd12-4842-9f20-0a42fdd35e30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).