BILL NUMBER: AB 720	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 9, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 25, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hall

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend 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 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 
 the amount for which public projects are authorized to be
performed by the employees of the public agency as specified above
 to $45,000.
   Existing law also  authorizes public projects of $125,000 or
less to be let to contract by informal procedures, as specified, and
 requires public projects of more than $125,000 to be let to
contract by formal bidding procedure, except as provided.
   This bill  would increase the amount for which public projects
are authorized to be let to contract by informal procedures to
$175,000, and  would increase  that   the
 amount for which public  contracts  
projects  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 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 seventy-five thousand dollars
($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
  seventy-five  thousand dollars 
($125,000)   ($175,000)  shall, except as otherwise
provided in this article, be let to contract by formal bidding
procedure.