republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2068.md

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Bill	State agencies: call center work: reporting information.	Existing law establishes the Department of General Services within the Government Operations Agency and charges it with various duties regarding contracting for the acquisition of goods and services by state agencies. Existing law further requires state agencies to comply with specified procedures in awarding agency contracts. Existing law prohibits a state agency authorized to enter into contracts relating to public benefit programs from contracting for services provided by a call center that directly serves applicants for, recipients of, or enrollees in, those public benefit programs with a contractor or subcontractor unless that contractor or subcontractor certifies in its bid for the contract that the contract, and any subcontract performed under that contract, will be performed solely with workers employed in California.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2068	California AB 2068 (20232024)	bill	State agencies call center work reporting information	enacted	Ortega	8	28	9	2024-02-05	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/cc22e556-00c6-40b3-afa8-6f9005d89180	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2068	03250ad0c2d150a48e0e71dffe28fa491bc45d26713fee07be007e2c8782ac26	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2068 (20232024) — State agencies: call center work: reporting information.

Existing law establishes the Department of General Services within the Government Operations Agency and charges it with various duties regarding contracting for the acquisition of goods and services by state agencies. Existing law further requires state agencies to comply with specified procedures in awarding agency contracts. Existing law prohibits a state agency authorized to enter into contracts relating to public benefit programs from contracting for services provided by a call center that directly serves applicants for, recipients of, or enrollees in, those public benefit programs with a contractor or subcontractor unless that contractor or subcontractor certifies in its bid for the contract that the contract, and any subcontract performed under that contract, will be performed solely with workers employed in California.

Version chain

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

1. 02/05/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/20/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/05/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2068 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor, Public Employment and Retirement ] — 12–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2068 Ortega Assembly Third Reading — 66–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2068 Ortega Concurrence in Senate Amendments By LEE — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2068 Ortega By Limón — 32–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ortega — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-06 From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
• 2024-03-18 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2024-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2024-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 5540.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-05 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2024-06-05 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L., P.E. & R. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-13 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 7.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 697, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cc22e556-00c6-40b3-afa8-6f9005d89180. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).