republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-1957.md

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Bill	Public contracts: best value construction contracting for counties.	Existing law establishes a pilot program to allow the Counties of Alameda, Los Angeles, Monterey, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Yuba to select a bidder on the basis of best value, as defined, for construction projects in excess of $1,000,000. Existing law also authorizes these counties to use a best value construction contracting method to award individual annual contracts, not to exceed $3,000,000, for repair, remodeling, or other repetitive work to be done according to unit prices, as specified. Existing law establishes procedures and criteria for the selection of a best value contractor and requires that bidders verify specified information under oath. Existing law requires the board of supervisors of a participating county to submit a report that contains specified information about the projects awarded using the best value procedures described above to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee before March 1, 2024. Existing law repeals the pilot program provisions on January 1, 2025.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1957	California AB 1957 (20232024)	bill	Public contracts best value construction contracting for counties	enacted	Wilson	5	19	5	2024-01-29	2024-07-02	openstates	ocd-bill/6481dcce-7232-4e1c-a098-ce63320262c7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1957	1b7fe9355e9ff632d6e7391fc49eb53231473baa774d4242410a1cd657814f2c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1957 (20232024) — Public contracts: best value construction contracting for counties.

Existing law establishes a pilot program to allow the Counties of Alameda, Los Angeles, Monterey, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Yuba to select a bidder on the basis of best value, as defined, for construction projects in excess of $1,000,000. Existing law also authorizes these counties to use a best value construction contracting method to award individual annual contracts, not to exceed $3,000,000, for repair, remodeling, or other repetitive work to be done according to unit prices, as specified. Existing law establishes procedures and criteria for the selection of a best value contractor and requires that bidders verify specified information under oath. Existing law requires the board of supervisors of a participating county to submit a report that contains specified information about the projects awarded using the best value procedures described above to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee before March 1, 2024. Existing law repeals the pilot program provisions on January 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. 01/29/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/08/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/02/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1957 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/18/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1957 Wilson Consent Calendar Second Day — 65–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wilson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-29 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-01-30 From printer. May be heard in committee February 29.
• 2024-02-12 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2024-04-08 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
• 2024-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2024-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 5158.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-22 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2024-05-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-10 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-06-11 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4491.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-06-13 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2024-06-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-07-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-07-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 58, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6481dcce-7232-4e1c-a098-ce63320262c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).