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Bill	Public contracts: authorized agent: limitations.	Existing law governs the bidding and awarding of public contracts by public entities, as defined. Existing law makes it a crime for a public official, as specified, to ask, receive, or agree to receive, any bribe, upon an understanding that their official vote, opinion, judgment, or action will be influenced thereby.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 34	California SB 34 (20212022)	bill	Public contracts: authorized agent: limitations.	enacted	Umberg	11	43	9	2020-12-07	2022-09-13	openstates	ocd-bill/8ef2263b-6795-4c32-8c30-8f18a6971136	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB34	0c19dc39fe36bbb57dd7fe425079512509d0f96457847ec85a3000c705244067	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 34 (20212022) — Public contracts: authorized agent: limitations.

Existing law governs the bidding and awarding of public contracts by public entities, as defined. Existing law makes it a crime for a public official, as specified, to ask, receive, or agree to receive, any bribe, upon an understanding that their official vote, opinion, judgment, or action will be influenced thereby.

Version chain

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

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/24/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/06/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/20/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/26/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/13/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/08/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. SB34 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB34 Umberg et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 34 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Daly — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — 30–4 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Umberg — primary (person)
• Daly — principal coauthor (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-07 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 7.
• 2021-01-28 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2021-02-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-03 Re-referred to Coms. on ED. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2021-03-12 Set for hearing March 24.
• 2021-04-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 604.) (March 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2021-04-15 April 22 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-04-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2021-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2021-05-04 May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1180.) (May 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-26 Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Umberg.
• 2022-01-06 From inactive file on motion of Senator Hertzberg.
• 2022-01-06 Ordered to second reading.
• 2022-01-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-01-24 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 4. Page 2801.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-01-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-05-05 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2022-05-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-06 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2022-06-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-08 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5884.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-15 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-16 Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
• 2022-08-16 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on G.O. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 4835.) Re-referred to Com. on G.O. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-08-17 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 4884.) committee-passage
• 2022-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5224.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2022-09-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 297, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ef2263b-6795-4c32-8c30-8f18a6971136. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).