BILL NUMBER: AB 2372	CHAPTERED  08/28/06

	CHAPTER  192
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 28, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 28, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 10, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 15, 2006

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Pavley

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2006

   An act to add Section 22044.5 to the Public Contract Code,
relating to public projects.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2372, Pavley  Public projects: sanction for noncompliance.
   Under existing law a public agency can elect to be subject to the
California Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act, which
authorizes bidding procedures for public projects, as specified.
Existing law requires the California Uniform Construction Cost
Accounting Commission, upon the request of an interested party, to
review the bidding practices of a participating public agency to
determine if the agency has violated the act.
   This bill would provide that a participating public agency, for
which the commission has, on 3 occasions within a 10-year period,
determined that the agency has not complied with the bidding
procedures authorized by the act, is prohibited from using those
bidding procedures for a period of 5 years, as specified.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 22044.5 is added to the Public Contract Code,
to read:
   22044.5.  If the commission makes a finding, in accordance with
Section 22043, on three separate occasions within a 10-year period,
that the work undertaken by a public agency falls within any of the
categories described in Section 22042, the commission shall notify
the public agency of that finding in writing by certified mail and
the public agency shall not use the bidding procedures provided by
this article for five years from the date of the commission's
findings.