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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 425: Bonds: public entities as beneficiaries.

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 425 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 18, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Bonds: public entities as beneficiaries. Primary sponsor: Susan Rubio (D). Most recent recorded action (February 2, 2026): Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

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

Existing law, the Bond and Undertaking Law, prescribes procedures for a bond or undertaking that is executed, filed, posted, furnished, or otherwise given as a security pursuant to any statute, except as specified. Unless a statute providing for a bond indicates that the bond becomes effective at a different time, a bond is effective at the time it is given or, if the statute requires that the bond be approved, at the time it is approved.

This bill would specify that if a statute provides for a bond to be given to or in favor of a beneficiary that is a public entity, as defined, in connection with the purchase, construction, expansion, improvement, or rehabilitation of any real or other tangible personal property, that bond is not effective unless the beneficiary agrees to (1) make all payments to the principal, or to the surety if the surety agrees to complete the work upon the principal’s default, and (2) perform all necessary obligations owed to the principal under the contract for the work.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Susan RubioPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate22

“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. Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  2. April 29 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
  3. Set for hearing April 29.
  4. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  5. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
  6. Withdrawn from committee.
  7. April 9 hearing postponed by committee.
  8. Set for hearing April 9.
  9. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS.
  10. Referred to Com. on INS.
  11. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
  12. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page