republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1981.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Los Angeles Unified School District: best value procurement."
description: "Existing law establishes a pilot program authorizing the Los Angeles Unified School District to use, before December 31, 2020, a best value procurement method for bid evaluation and selection for public projects that exceed $1,000,000. The pilot program establishes various requirements applicable to the use of the best value procurement method under the authorization. Existing law requires the school district to submit an interim and final report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on the use of the best value procurement method as provided and in accordance with a specified schedule. These provisions are repealed on January 1, 2021."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1981"
citation: "California AB 1981 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Los Angeles Unified School District: best value procurement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nazarian"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-23"
last_action: "2020-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f037fa8-92f3-4b55-99bd-aeaa733619a4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1981"
source_hash: "96285f2f151a377f57e1f44e1daa509145014124e7ffc74853692f1a0e27abe6"
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 1981 (20192020) — Los Angeles Unified School District: best value procurement.

Existing law establishes a pilot program authorizing the Los Angeles Unified School District to use, before December 31, 2020, a best value procurement method for bid evaluation and selection for public projects that exceed $1,000,000. The pilot program establishes various requirements applicable to the use of the best value procurement method under the authorization. Existing law requires the school district to submit an interim and final report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on the use of the best value procurement method as provided and in accordance with a specified schedule. These provisions are repealed on January 1, 2021.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/23/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1981&version=20190AB198199INT)
2. **02/24/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1981&version=20190AB198198AMD)
3. **05/11/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1981&version=20190AB198197AMD)
4. **09/09/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1981&version=20190AB198195CHP)
5. **AB1981** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1981)
6. **08/25/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1981&version=20190AB198196ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1981 Nazarian By Leyva — **31–5** (pass) · upper
- AB 1981 Nazarian Assembly Third Reading — **66–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nazarian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-01-24** From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
- **2020-02-06** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-02-25** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-05-07** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (May 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 4. Page 4749.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-07-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 5. Page 4288.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-24** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2020-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2020-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 46, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f037fa8-92f3-4b55-99bd-aeaa733619a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).