BILL NUMBER: AB 701	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fong

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 701, as introduced, Fong. School districts: contracts: formal
bids: notices.
   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 at least once a week for two weeks in a newspaper of general
circulation, stating the work to be done or materials or supplies to
be furnished and the time when and place where the bids would be
opened. Existing law also allows the notice to be posted on the
district's Internet Web site or through an electronic portal.
   This bill would instead require the notice to be published at
least once a week for two weeks on the district's Internet Web site
or through an electronic portal.
   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 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  In   ternet  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  Internet  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.