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Bill	Public contracts: skilled and trained workforce requirement: notice.	Existing law establishes requirements that apply when a public entity is required by statute or regulation to obtain an enforceable commitment that a bidder, contractor, or other entity will use a skilled and trained workforce to complete a contract or project. Existing law also authorizes a public entity to require that a bidder, contractor, or other entity use a skilled and trained workforce to complete a contract or project.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2311	California AB 2311 (20192020)	bill	Public contracts: skilled and trained workforce requirement: notice.	enacted	Low	6	21	6	2020-02-14	2020-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/8e5bd909-d34e-49e8-ab25-180e3be5bb22	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2311	65cd6c6587d8d2331d96e5aafb79b3c6cf682558f5fb186d60ce5726018d587f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2311 (20192020) — Public contracts: skilled and trained workforce requirement: notice.

Existing law establishes requirements that apply when a public entity is required by statute or regulation to obtain an enforceable commitment that a bidder, contractor, or other entity will use a skilled and trained workforce to complete a contract or project. Existing law also authorizes a public entity to require that a bidder, contractor, or other entity use a skilled and trained workforce to complete a contract or project.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/12/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/08/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2311 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2311 Low Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2311 Low Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB2311 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2020-03-12 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2020-03-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2020-05-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4727.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-23 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2020-07-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-13 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4376.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5326.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 347, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8e5bd909-d34e-49e8-ab25-180e3be5bb22. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).