republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-230.md

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Bill	Disabled veteran business enterprises.	Under existing law, the administering agency for the California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program is the Department of General Services, except in the case of contracts for professional bond services. Existing law requires the Director of General Services to adopt written policies and guidelines establishing a uniform process for state contracting to provide a disabled veteran business enterprise (DVBE) participation incentive to bidders, which all state agencies are required to use when awarding contracts.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 230	California AB 230 (20192020)	bill	Disabled veteran business enterprises.	enacted	Brough	8	30	10	2019-01-17	2019-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/8071b839-1d6f-4aa0-834a-83e9b91bcebc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB230	f7f4ab4f77624724308f831e00df638f476763e3468d8614585a7dc1c1e93596	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 230 (20192020) — Disabled veteran business enterprises.

Under existing law, the administering agency for the California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program is the Department of General Services, except in the case of contracts for professional bond services. Existing law requires the Director of General Services to adopt written policies and guidelines establishing a uniform process for state contracting to provide a disabled veteran business enterprise (DVBE) participation incentive to bidders, which all state agencies are required to use when awarding contracts.

Version chain

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

1. 01/17/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/15/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/08/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/09/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB230 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/16/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Veterans Affairs] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Accountability and Administrative Review] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 230 Brough Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 230 Brough Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB230 Brough et al. By Umberg — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brough — primary (person)
• Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-18 From printer. May be heard in committee February 17.
• 2019-02-15 Referred to Coms. on J., E.D., & E. and A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2019-02-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on J., E.D., & E. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-02-19 Re-referred to Com. on J., E.D., & E. referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-08 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2020.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and V.A. referral-committee
• 2019-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on V.A. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on V.A. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2750.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
• 2019-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3404.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 676, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8071b839-1d6f-4aa0-834a-83e9b91bcebc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).