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type: "Bill"
title: "Employment contracts and agreements: sufficient funds: liability."
description: "(1) Existing law prohibits a person or entity from entering into a contract or agreement for labor or services with specified types of contractors if the person or entity knows or should know that the contract or agreement does not include funds sufficient to allow the contractor to comply with all applicable local, state, and federal laws or regulations governing the labor or services to be provided. Existing law creates a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of proof that there has been no violation of the above-described prohibition if the contract meets specified requirements, including being in a single document and containing a list of the current local, state, and federal contractor license identification numbers that the independent contractors are required to have under local, state, or federal laws and regulations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2754"
citation: "California AB 2754 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment contracts and agreements", "liability", "sufficient funds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rendon"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2024-02-15"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82241a18-ad06-499e-b276-9ca6acd68620"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2754"
source_hash: "61e901100d65580bc2ec257276e2b26b54622c6342b27c1967ce6fc357e5ef08"
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 2754 (20232024) — Employment contracts and agreements: sufficient funds: liability.
(1) Existing law prohibits a person or entity from entering into a contract or agreement for labor or services with specified types of contractors if the person or entity knows or should know that the contract or agreement does not include funds sufficient to allow the contractor to comply with all applicable local, state, and federal laws or regulations governing the labor or services to be provided. Existing law creates a rebuttable presumption affecting the burden of proof that there has been no violation of the above-described prohibition if the contract meets specified requirements, including being in a single document and containing a list of the current local, state, and federal contractor license identification numbers that the independent contractors are required to have under local, state, or federal laws and regulations.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/15/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2754&version=20230AB275499INT)
2. **04/09/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2754&version=20230AB275498AMD)
3. **05/20/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2754&version=20230AB275497AMD)
4. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2754&version=20230AB275495CHP)
5. **AB2754** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2754)
6. **08/31/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2754&version=20230AB275496ENR)
## Votes
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **41** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **52** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **50** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **92** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **114** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2754 Rendon By Durazo — **2910** (pass) · upper
- AB 2754 Rendon Assembly Third Reading — **523** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **92** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Rendon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** 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`
- **2024-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (April 23). 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 11. Noes 4.) (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 52. Noes 3. Page 5545.) `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 L., P.E. & R. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (July 2). 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`
- **2024-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 10.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 739, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82241a18-ad06-499e-b276-9ca6acd68620`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).