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Bill	Public contracts: information technology services: contractor evaluations.	Existing law requires all contracts for the acquisition of information technology goods and services related to information technology projects, as defined, to be made by or under the supervision of the Department of Technology. Existing law requires all other contracts for the acquisition of information technology goods or services to be made by or under the supervision of the Department of General Services. Under existing law, both the Department of Technology and the Department of General Services are authorized to delegate their authority to another agency, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 971	California AB 971 (20192020)	bill	Public contracts: information technology services: contractor evaluations.	enacted	Salas	11	33	6	2019-02-21	2019-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/03b47a4e-ce89-4047-a762-8d3197e5cfcd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB971	51c46d183c2d59f896f395c2db142530ad7dcdc010349244eec47e8c1cf306c8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 971 (20192020) — Public contracts: information technology services: contractor evaluations.

Existing law requires all contracts for the acquisition of information technology goods and services related to information technology projects, as defined, to be made by or under the supervision of the Department of Technology. Existing law requires all other contracts for the acquisition of information technology goods or services to be made by or under the supervision of the Department of General Services. Under existing law, both the Department of Technology and the Department of General Services are authorized to delegate their authority to another agency, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/04/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/22/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/16/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/02/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/03/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB971 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/11/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 971 Salas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 971 Salas Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB971 Salas By Glazer — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Salas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2019-03-18 Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-08 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2019-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (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: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 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 2040.) 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 Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2019-06-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-07-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-30 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2508.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3106.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 496, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/03b47a4e-ce89-4047-a762-8d3197e5cfcd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).