AB 1809: Public contracts: school and community college districts.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

(1)Existing law, the Local Agency Public Construction Act, authorizes job order contracting, as defined, for school districts until January 1, 2027. Existing law requires job order contractors to submit a questionnaire to the school district containing specified information verified under oath, under penalty of perjury.

This bill would extend the termination date for these provisions until January 1, 2037.

Existing law authorizes a school district to utilize job order contracting only if the school district has entered into a project labor agreement or agreements that will apply to all public works awarded through job order contracting and to all other public works of the school district that exceed a monetary threshold set by the school district until January 1, 2027, regardless of what contracting procedure is used to award that work.

This bill would extend the termination date for these provisions until January 1, 2037. The bill would also prohibit job order contracting by a school district if the district finds, based on criteria and methodology established by the school district, that it will increase the total cost of the project without sufficient documented justification.

Existing law requires a school district to prepare an execution plan for all modernization projects that may be eligible for job order contracting. Existing law requires the school district to select from that plan a sufficient number of projects to be initiated as job order contracts during each calendar year and to determine for each selected project that job order contracting will reduce the total cost of that project, as specified.

This bill would delete the above provisions.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. September 27, 2026Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 548, Statutes of 2026.
2. September 27, 2026Approved by the Governor.
3. August 27, 2026Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
4. August 20, 2026Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 12. Page 6319.).
5. August 19, 2026In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
6. August 19, 2026Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9.).
7. June 23, 2026Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
8. June 22, 2026From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
9. June 10, 2026From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
10. June 1, 2026From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED.
11. May 27, 2026Referred to Com. on ED.
12. May 18, 2026In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.