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SB 622 · 2017-18

Changes contracting rules for bridge and highway districts

Official subject Local Agency Public Construction Act: Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District.

Became law Chapter 396, Statutes of 2017

Plain-language summary

Requires bridge and highway districts to advertise vessel repair contracts over $1,000,000 and other construction work over $5,000. Allows informal bidding for construction up to $50,000 and vessel work up to $1,000,000 if the district adopts an ordinance. Lets the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District buy through other public entities' contracts without bidding.

How these summaries are written

Official summary · Legislative Counsel's Digest

Describes the final version (Chaptered, Sept. 30, 2017).

Read the official summary (4 paragraphs)

The Local Agency Public Construction Act requires a bridge and highway district to advertise for contracts in specified publications for all vessel repair, maintenance, and alteration work whenever the estimated expenditure exceeds $20,000 and for all other construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration work and for all insurance purchased by the district if the estimated expenditure exceeds $5,000. The act authorizes a bridge and highway district to contract without advertising or competitive bidding in case of emergency. The act requires a bridge and highway district to comply with specified emergency contracting procedures if the notice for bids to let a contract will not be given.

This bill would instead require a bridge and highway district to advertise for contracts for all vessel repair, maintenance, and alteration work if the estimated expenditure exceeds $1,000,000, and for all other construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration work, and all similar work, if the estimated expenditure exceeds $5,000, in at least one newspaper and one trade paper of general circulation, as specified. The bill would also authorize the district, at its discretion, to use informal bidding for a contract for construction, repair, maintenance, and alteration work, and all similar work, with an estimated expenditure that does not exceed $50,000, and for a contract for vessel repair, maintenance, and alteration work that does not exceed $1,000,000, if it enacts an ordinance that governs the selection of contractors, as specified.

Existing law requires the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District to award all contracts in excess of $20,000 for the hiring or purchase of equipment, supplies, or materials to the lowest responsible bidder, except that, if the required expenditure exceeds $100,000, the contract may be let, in the district’s discretion, to the responsible bidder who submitted a proposal that provides the best value, as specified.

The bill would also authorize the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District to contract without competitive bidding with suppliers of goods and services by participating in contracts let by one or more specified public entities and any other entity that expends public funds.

Official title

An act to add Section 20919 to, and to repeal and add Section 20914 of, the Public Contract Code, relating to local agency contracts.

Timeline

  1. Feb. 17, 2017 Introduced
  2. May 22, 2017 Passed Senate 37 yes, 0 no
  3. Sept. 5, 2017 Passed Assembly 76 yes, 0 no
  4. Sept. 12, 2017 Enrolled and sent to the Governor
  5. Sept. 30, 2017 Signed by the Governor
  6. Sept. 30, 2017 Chaptered (became law)
Full official history (27 actions)
  1. Feb. 17, 2017 Introduced: Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
  2. Feb. 21, 2017 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
  3. March 2, 2017 Referred to Com. on T. & H.
  4. April 4, 2017 Set for hearing April 18.
  5. April 17, 2017 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H.
  6. April 18, 2017 April 18 hearing postponed by committee.
  7. April 19, 2017 Set for hearing April 25.
  8. May 1, 2017 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H.
  9. May 1, 2017 Set for hearing May 9.
  10. May 10, 2017 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 1021.) (May 9).
  11. May 11, 2017 Published May 11 at 9 p.m.
  12. May 11, 2017 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar.
  13. May 22, 2017 Passed Senate: Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1148.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  14. May 23, 2017 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  15. June 5, 2017 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and TRANS.
  16. June 29, 2017 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
  17. July 11, 2017 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 10).
  18. July 12, 2017 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  19. Aug. 31, 2017 Read third time and amended.
  20. Aug. 31, 2017 Ordered to third reading.
  21. Sept. 5, 2017 Passed Assembly: Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2956.) Ordered to the Senate.
  22. Sept. 5, 2017 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  23. Sept. 6, 2017 Ordered to special consent calendar.
  24. Sept. 7, 2017 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2584.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  25. Sept. 12, 2017 Enrolled and sent to the Governor: Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  26. Sept. 30, 2017 Signed by the Governor: Approved by the Governor.
  27. Sept. 30, 2017 Chaptered (became law): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 396, Statutes of 2017.