BILL NUMBER: AB 720	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 25, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hall

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend  Section 22032 of, and to repeal Section
22031 of,   Sections 22031 and 22032 of  the Public
Contract Code, relating to public contracts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 720, as amended, Hall. Public contracts: uniform construction
cost accounting provisions: alternative procedures.
   Existing law establishes procedures for local public agencies to
follow when engaged in public works projects, and authorizes agencies
to elect to become subject to uniform construction cost accounting
provisions. Existing law specifies that a board of supervisors or a
county road commissioner is not prohibited by those provisions from
utilizing, as an alternative, other procedures governing county
highway contracts.
   This bill would  repeal   revise  the
above provision that specifies that a board of supervisors or a
county road commissioner is not prohibited from using alternative
procedures governing county highway contracts  to limit the use
of those   alternative procedures for maintenance and
emergency work  .
   Existing law authorizes public projects of $30,000 or less to be
performed by the employees of the public agency by force account,
negotiated contract, or purchase order.
   This bill would increase that authorization to $45,000. 
   Existing law also requires public projects of more than $125,000
to be let to contract by formal bidding procedure, except as
provided.  
   This bill would increase that amount for which public contracts
are required to be let by formal bidding procedure to projects of
more than $175,000. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   
  SECTION 1.    Section 22031 of the Public Contract
Code is repealed. 
   SECTION 1.    Section 22031 of the   Public
Contract Code   is amended to read: 
   22031.  Nothing in this article shall prohibit a board of
supervisors or a county road commissioner from utilizing, as an
alternative to the procedures set forth in this article, the
procedures set forth in Article 25 (commencing with Section 20390) of
Chapter 1  for maintenance and emergency work  .
  SEC. 2.  Section 22032 of the Public Contract Code is amended to
read:
   22032.  (a) Public projects of forty-five thousand dollars
($45,000) or less may be performed by the employees of a public
agency by force account, by negotiated contract, or by purchase
order.
   (b) Public projects of one hundred  twenty-five 
 seventy-five  thousand dollars  ($125,000)
  ($175,000)  or less may be let to contract by
informal procedures as set forth in this article.
   (c) Public projects of more than one hundred twenty-five thousand
dollars ($125,000) shall, except as otherwise provided in this
article, be let to contract by formal bidding procedure.