BILL NUMBER: AB 653	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 30, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 15, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Levine

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2015

   An act to amend  Sections   Section 
81641  and 81644  of, and to add Section 81646 to,
the Education Code, and to add Section 20653.5 to the Public Contract
Code, relating to postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 653, as amended, Levine. Postsecondary education: community
college contracting practices.
   (1) Existing law establishes the California State University, the
University of California, and the California Community Colleges as
the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state.
   Existing law requires the governing board of a community college
district to publish a notice calling for bids or proposals in a
newspaper of general circulation. Existing law requires this notice
to state the work proposed to be done or the materials or supplies to
be furnished and the time when, and the place where, bids or
proposals will be opened.
   This bill would  also  authorize the governing board of a
community college district to  alternatively  post
the notice described above on its Internet Web  site or its
bidding platform, as defined.   site or through an
electronic portal.  
   (2) Existing law provides that continuing contracts for work to be
done or services to be performed for, or for apparatus or equipment
to be furnished, sold, built, installed, or repaired for, a community
college district, may be made for a period not to exceed 5 years,
and that contracts for materials and supplies to be furnished or sold
to a district may be made for a period not to exceed 3 years.
 
   This bill would provide that the contracts for work, services,
apparatus or equipment, and materials and supplies for a community
college district, as referenced above, may be made for a period not
to exceed 7 years.  
   (3) 
    (   2)  Existing law declares that nothing in
the Public Contract Code precludes the governing board of a community
college district from purchasing materials, equipment, or supplies
through the Department of General  Services pursuant to a
specified statute.   Services, as specified. 
   This bill would declare that nothing in either the Education Code
or the Public Contract Code would preclude a community college
district from purchasing materials, equipment, supplies, or services
under the same terms and conditions as are specified in a contract
lawfully awarded by the University of California or the California
State University.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 81641 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   81641.   (a)    For the purpose
of securing bids or proposals, the governing board of the community
college district shall  post on its Internet Web site or
bidding platform, or  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 Web site or through an   electronic portal,
 a notice calling for bids or proposals, stating the work to be
done or materials or supplies to be furnished and the time when and
the place where bids or proposals will be opened. Whether or not bids
or proposals are opened exactly at the time fixed in the public
notice for opening bids or proposals, a bid or proposal shall not be
received after that time. 
   (b) As used in this section, a "bidding platform" is an online
environment that allows users to bid for the provision of goods or
services.  
  SEC. 2.   Section 81644 of the Education Code is
amended to read:
   81644.  Continuing contracts for work to be done, services to be
performed, or for apparatus or equipment to be furnished, sold,
built, installed, or repaired for the district, or for materials or
supplies to be furnished or sold to the district, may be made with an
accepted vendor for a period not to exceed seven years. 
   SEC. 3.   SEC. 2.   Section 81646 is
added to the Education Code, to read:
   81646.  Nothing in this code shall preclude the governing board of
a community college district from purchasing materials, equipment,
supplies, or services under the same terms and conditions as are
specified in a contract lawfully awarded by the University of
California or the California State University.
   SEC. 4.   SEC. 3.   Section 20653.5 is
added to the Public Contract Code, to read:
   20653.5.  Nothing in this code shall preclude the governing board
of a community college district from purchasing materials, equipment,
supplies, or services under the same terms and conditions as are
specified in a contract lawfully awarded by the University of
California or the California State University.