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Bill	Public contracts: conflicts of interest.	Existing law prohibits members of the Legislature and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members. Existing law authorizes the Fair Political Practices Commission to commence an administrative or civil action against persons who violate this prohibition, as prescribed, and includes provisions for the collection of penalties after the time for judicial review of a commission order or decision has lapsed, or if all means of judicial review of the order or decision have been exhausted. Existing law identifies certain remote interests in contracts that are not subject to this prohibition and other situations in which an official is not deemed to be financially interested in a contract. Existing law makes a willful violation of this prohibition a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 334	California AB 334 (20232024)	bill	Public contracts conflicts of interest	enacted	Blanca Rubio	6	23	7	2023-01-30	2023-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/f8fb1e84-7bfb-4e7f-ae57-177b2c5a36fd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB334	92faef4d61bd100244f8afa5de0f3102cb5f7377b1b6685399be02062199b5ba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 334 (20232024) — Public contracts: conflicts of interest.

Existing law prohibits members of the Legislature and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members. Existing law authorizes the Fair Political Practices Commission to commence an administrative or civil action against persons who violate this prohibition, as prescribed, and includes provisions for the collection of penalties after the time for judicial review of a commission order or decision has lapsed, or if all means of judicial review of the order or decision have been exhausted. Existing law identifies certain remote interests in contracts that are not subject to this prohibition and other situations in which an official is not deemed to be financially interested in a contract. Existing law makes a willful violation of this prohibition a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 01/30/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/30/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/07/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB334 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 334 Blanca Rubio Consent Calendar Second Day — 66–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB334 Blanca Rubio et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 334 Blanca Rubio Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Blanca Rubio — primary (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-30 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-01-31 From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
• 2023-02-09 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1522.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-24 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2023-05-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 6). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-14 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-07-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-14 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-08-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2139.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-08-17 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2821.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 263, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f8fb1e84-7bfb-4e7f-ae57-177b2c5a36fd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).