BILL NUMBER: SB 1464	CHAPTERED  09/24/04

	CHAPTER  739
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 24, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 24, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 26, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 24, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 23, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 29, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Karnette
   (Coauthor:  Assembly Member Levine)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2004

   An act to amend Section 20112 of the Public Contract Code,
relating to public contracting.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1464, Karnette.   Public contracts.
   Existing law requires that a school district that seeks to let a
contract involving a specified minimum expenditure for the purchase
of equipment, materials, or supplies to be furnished, sold, or leased
to the school district, or involving a specified minimum expenditure
on a public project, to publish a notice calling for bids on the
contract in a newspaper of general circulation, stating the work to
be done or materials or supplies to be furnished and the time and
place where the bids would be opened.
   This bill would authorize school districts to also publish this
notice for bids on the district's Web site or through an electronic
portal, and authorize these districts to accept bids that were
submitted either electronically or on paper.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 20112 of the Public Contract Code is amended to
read:
   20112.  For the purpose of securing bids the governing board of a
school district shall publish at least once a week for two weeks in
some newspaper of general circulation published in the district, or
if there is no such paper, then in some newspaper of general
circulation, circulated in the county, and may post on the district's
Web site or through an electronic portal, a notice calling for bids,
stating the work to be done or materials or supplies to be furnished
and the time when and the place and the Web site where bids will be
opened.  Whether or not bids are opened exactly at the time fixed in
the public notice for opening bids, a bid shall not be received after
that time.  The governing board of the district may accept a bid
that was submitted either electronically or on paper.