BILL NUMBER: AB 1364	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act relating to public contracts, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1364, as introduced, Evans. Public contracts
   Existing law permits the modification of contracts by state
agencies in specified instances.
   This bill would provide that, notwithstanding any other provision
of law, any state agency that has entered into a contract where the
agency has or may be unable to comply with the terms of that contract
because of the suspension of programs by the Pooled Money Investment
Board as described in California Department of Finance Budget Letter
08-33 shall have authority to amend the terms of the contract to
address contract deadlines and deliverables that may not be met
because of that suspension.
   The bill would declare that it would take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any state
agency that has entered into a contract where the agency has or may
be unable to comply with the terms of that contract because of the
suspension of programs by the Pooled Money Investment Board as
described in California Department of Finance Budget Letter 08-33
shall have authority to amend the terms of the contract to address
contract deadlines and deliverables that may not be met because of
that suspension.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to permit state agencies to take immediate action to make
needed revisions to contracts, it is necessary for this act to take
effect immediately.