CA SB 33
enactedPublic contracts: claim resolution.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Description
Existing law prescribes various requirements regarding the formation, content, and enforcement of state and local public contracts. Existing law establishes, until January 1, 2027, for contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2017, a claim resolution process applicable to any claim by a contractor in connection with a public works project against a public entity, as specified. For purposes of these provisions, existing law defines "public entity" to include, among others, a city, including a charter city, and county, including a charter county. Existing law imposes various requirements on a public entity in relating to the claim resolution process, including, among other things, conducting a reasonable review of the claim and, within 45 days, providing the claimant a written statement identifying the disputed and undisputed portions of the claim. This bill would repeal the above-described January 1, 2027, repeal date, thereby extending the operation of these provisions indefinitely. By indefinitely extending the duties of local agencies in relation to the above-specified claim resolution process, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
- Introduced
- 2024-12-02
- Status date
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- Latest action
- 2026-07-16 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 99, Statutes of 2026.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Corteseauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2024-12-02
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction,reading-1,referral-committee
2024-12-03
From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 2.
2025-01-29
Referred to Coms. on ED. and HUMAN S.
referral-committee
2025-03-03
Set for hearing March 19.
2025-03-10
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-03-19
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 419.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-04
Set for hearing April 21.
2025-04-22
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 811.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-25
Set for hearing May 5.
2025-05-05
May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-23
May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
2026-01-05
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2026-01-05
Withdrawn from committee.
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2026-01-05
Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee
2026-01-05
Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee
2026-01-06
Set for hearing January 13.
2026-01-14
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 3213.) (January 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-01-15
Set for hearing January 20.
2026-01-20
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
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2026-01-21
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-01-26
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3279.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2026-01-26
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2026-06-01
Referred to Com. on G.O.
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2026-06-10
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-06-24
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 24).
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2026-06-25
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2026-07-02
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
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2026-07-02
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2026-07-15
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
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2026-07-16
Approved by the Governor.
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2026-07-16
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 99, Statutes of 2026.
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Documents
Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services]
2025-03-19 · pass · 6-1
Member-level votes (7)
- Cabaldon: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Laird: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Choi: no
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-21 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Arreguín: yes
- Becker: yes
- Limón: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Pérez: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-05-05 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wahab: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-01-13 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Niello: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Stern: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Laird: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Allen: yes
- Wiener: yes
3rd Reading
2026-01-26 · pass · 39-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Grayson: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Becker: yes
- Jones: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Strickland: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Stern: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Laird: yes
- Choi: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Pérez: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Limón: yes
- Allen: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Niello: yes
- Grove: yes
- Gonzalez: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-06-10 · pass · 18-0
Member-level votes (21)
- Alvarez: yes
- Solache: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Soria: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Davies: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ta: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Carrillo: other
- Macedo: other
- Valencia: other
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2026-06-24 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Wicks: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ta: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Krell: yes
SB 33 Cortese Consent Calendar Second Day
2026-07-02 · pass · 70-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Berman: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Fong: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Haney: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Soria: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ward: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Addis: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Krell: yes
- Hart: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Schultz: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lee: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Davies: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Flora: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Papan: other
- Sanchez: other
- Bryan: other
- Ransom: other
- Calderon: other
- Chen: other
- Ellis: other
- Elhawary: other
- Bains: other
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