republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-1620.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public works projects."
description: "(1) Existing law prohibits any state agency from expending funds appropriated for capital outlay projects, and prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated for design-build projects, until the Department of Finance and the State Public Works Board have approved preliminary plans for the project. Existing law authorizes the board to augment a major capital outlay or design-build project in an amount of up to 20% of the total appropriation for that project. Prior to board action on any capital outlay or design-build appropriation, the department is required to certify that the requested action is in accordance with the legislatively approved scope and cost. Existing law also requires, in specified circumstances, the board to defer action with respect to the approval of preliminary plans for a capital outlay project and the approval of concept drawings and performance criteria for a design-build project. Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to enter into only 7 design-build contracts pursuant to these provisions, as specified, and effective July 1, 2009, provides that specified provisions remain operative for these 7 design-build projects."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1620"
citation: "California AB 1620 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Public works projects."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2010-01-11"
last_action: "2010-10-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e9f8c97-522d-449a-b721-55937cfe3675"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1620"
source_hash: "25ad83504c992e2c3806e73d393c640430f4a04b9a3002d073d585ff9bc58026"
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 1620 (20092010) — Public works projects.

(1) Existing law prohibits any state agency from expending funds appropriated for capital outlay projects, and prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated for design-build projects, until the Department of Finance and the State Public Works Board have approved preliminary plans for the project. Existing law authorizes the board to augment a major capital outlay or design-build project in an amount of up to 20% of the total appropriation for that project. Prior to board action on any capital outlay or design-build appropriation, the department is required to certify that the requested action is in accordance with the legislatively approved scope and cost. Existing law also requires, in specified circumstances, the board to defer action with respect to the approval of preliminary plans for a capital outlay project and the approval of concept drawings and performance criteria for a design-build project. Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to enter into only 7 design-build contracts pursuant to these provisions, as specified, and effective July 1, 2009, provides that specified provisions remain operative for these 7 design-build projects.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/11/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1620&version=20090AB162099INT)
2. **04/19/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1620&version=20090AB162098AMD)
3. **10/06/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1620&version=20090AB162097AMD)
4. **10/19/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1620&version=20090AB162095CHP)
5. **AB1620** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1620)
6. **10/11/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1620&version=20090AB162096ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 2nd Reading AB1620 Committee on BUDGET (Blumenfield) Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1620 BUDGET Concurrence- Urgency Added By BLUMENFIELD — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1620 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-01-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-01-12** From printer. May be heard in committee February 11.
- **2010-01-21** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-12** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4592.)
- **2010-04-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-20** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-22** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 45. Noes 7. Page 4804.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-04-27** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2010-08-05** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2010-08-09** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-10-06** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-10-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-10-07** Senate Rule 29.3 suspended.
- **2010-10-07** Joint Rule 10.5 suspended. (Page 5222.)
- **2010-10-07** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 3. Page 5231.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-10-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2010-10-07** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 7133.)
- **2010-10-07** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 56. Noes 18. Page 7140.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-10-13** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2010-10-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-10-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 726, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e9f8c97-522d-449a-b721-55937cfe3675`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).