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type: "Bill"
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title: "Public contracts: payment."
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description: "Existing law, until January 1, 2023, authorizes the retention proceeds withheld from any payment by an awarding entity, as described, from the original contractor, by the original contractor from any subcontractor, and by a subcontractor from any subcontractor, to exceed 5% on specific projects where the director of the applicable department, as specified, has made, or the governing body of the public entity or designated official of the public entity has approved, a finding prior to the bid that the project is substantially complex and requires a higher retention and the department or public entity includes both this finding and the actual retention amount in the bid documents."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20212022"
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identifier: "AB 2173"
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citation: "California AB 2173 (20212022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Public contracts: payment."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Petrie-Norris"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2022-02-15"
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last_action: "2022-07-19"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a339ff5f-bada-4b8e-b078-051e9daa8dd9"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2173"
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source_hash: "f96cd86c36d417a901caba7fd28fee1a357dffe7a40fae8abd6f8735a96e92f8"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 2173 (20212022) — Public contracts: payment.
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Existing law, until January 1, 2023, authorizes the retention proceeds withheld from any payment by an awarding entity, as described, from the original contractor, by the original contractor from any subcontractor, and by a subcontractor from any subcontractor, to exceed 5% on specific projects where the director of the applicable department, as specified, has made, or the governing body of the public entity or designated official of the public entity has approved, a finding prior to the bid that the project is substantially complex and requires a higher retention and the department or public entity includes both this finding and the actual retention amount in the bid documents.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/15/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2173&version=20210AB217399INT)
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2. **07/19/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2173&version=20210AB217397CHP)
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3. **AB2173** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2173)
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4. **06/29/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2173&version=20210AB217398ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · upper
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- Consent Calendar AB2173 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 2173 Petrie-Norris Assembly Third Reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Petrie-Norris — primary (person)
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- Flora — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2022-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
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- **2022-02-24** Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-04-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-04-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 4506.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2022-05-11** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4434.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-06-27** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2022-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
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- **2022-07-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2022-07-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 121, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a339ff5f-bada-4b8e-b078-051e9daa8dd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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