republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-712.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Agency Public Construction Act: change orders: County of Los Angeles."
description: "Existing law, the Local Agency Public Construction Act, regulates contracting by local agencies, including counties and special districts. The act includes specific provisions for contracting by counties, contracting for county highways and county bridges and subways, and contracting by county waterworks districts. Other existing law regulates contracting by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District (LACFCD) . Those specific provisions include change order authorization for contracts, as prescribed, and impose caps on the extra cost of any change order, varying with the value of the original contract."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 712"
citation: "California AB 712 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local Agency Public Construction Act: change orders: County of Los Angeles."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-16"
last_action: "2021-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6419cd4-6e73-4891-9962-73014a5df53f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB712"
source_hash: "f538dd03ef8a03e4406447c91f0df9d891b96e7c5bfcb313fcc02b1ce36b476e"
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 712 (20212022) — Local Agency Public Construction Act: change orders: County of Los Angeles.

Existing law, the Local Agency Public Construction Act, regulates contracting by local agencies, including counties and special districts. The act includes specific provisions for contracting by counties, contracting for county highways and county bridges and subways, and contracting by county waterworks districts. Other existing law regulates contracting by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District (LACFCD) . Those specific provisions include change order authorization for contracts, as prescribed, and impose caps on the extra cost of any change order, varying with the value of the original contract.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB712&version=20210AB71299INT)
2. **04/27/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB712&version=20210AB71298AMD)
3. **05/10/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB712&version=20210AB71297AMD)
4. **06/10/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB712&version=20210AB71296AMD)
5. **07/16/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB712&version=20210AB71294CHP)
6. **AB712** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB712)
7. **06/29/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB712&version=20210AB71295ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB712 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 712 Calderon Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 712 Calderon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Calderon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2021-02-25** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-27** 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`
- **2021-04-28** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 5). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2021-05-10** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1541.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-03** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-17** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1632.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-06-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2021-06-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2122.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2021-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 95, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6419cd4-6e73-4891-9962-73014a5df53f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).