republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2271.md

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Bill	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: contracting: local businesses.	Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) , with various powers and duties with respect to transportation planning, programming, construction, and operations. Existing law authorizes LA Metro to provide for a small business preference of 5% of the lowest responsible bidder meeting specifications, with respect to contracts in construction, the construction component of a design-build team, the procurement of goods, or the delivery of services. Existing law also authorizes LA Metro to set aside work for competition, until January 1, 2024, (1) among certified small business enterprises and award each contract to the certified small business enterprise that is the lowest responsible bidder whenever the expected expenditure required exceeds $5,000 but is less than $3,000,000, as specified, and (2) among medium business enterprises for no more than 20 contracts and award each contract to the medium business enterprise that is the lowest responsible bidder whenever the expected expenditure required exceeds $3,000,000 but is less than $30,000,000, as provided. Existing law defines a small business enterprise and medium business enterprise for these purposes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2271	California AB 2271 (20212022)	bill	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: contracting: local businesses.	enacted	Gipson	6	18	4	2022-02-16	2022-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/d520cbaf-c73e-40ec-979f-8696be103578	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2271	cd4039ba4888e53cb2b3a05d64ee1cee95960f203be0e7e8a345f89c90f7addd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2271 (20212022) — Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: contracting: local businesses.

Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) , with various powers and duties with respect to transportation planning, programming, construction, and operations. Existing law authorizes LA Metro to provide for a small business preference of 5% of the lowest responsible bidder meeting specifications, with respect to contracts in construction, the construction component of a design-build team, the procurement of goods, or the delivery of services. Existing law also authorizes LA Metro to set aside work for competition, until January 1, 2024, (1) among certified small business enterprises and award each contract to the certified small business enterprise that is the lowest responsible bidder whenever the expected expenditure required exceeds $5,000 but is less than $3,000,000, as specified, and (2) among medium business enterprises for no more than 20 contracts and award each contract to the medium business enterprise that is the lowest responsible bidder whenever the expected expenditure required exceeds $3,000,000 but is less than $30,000,000, as provided. Existing law defines a small business enterprise and medium business enterprise for these purposes.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/05/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/22/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2271 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2271 Gipson By Hertzberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2271 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 16–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2022-03-03 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2022-04-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2022-05-04 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 4). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-05-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 4879.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5120.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2022-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 460, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d520cbaf-c73e-40ec-979f-8696be103578. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).