BILL NUMBER: AB 1578INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Pan (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Ting) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Gordon) (Coauthor: Senator Lieu) JANUARY 30, 2014 An act to add Section 10373 to the Public Contract Code, relating to public contracts. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1578, as introduced, Pan. Public contracts for services: online database: expenditures. Existing law sets forth requirements for the acquisition of goods and services by state agencies and sets forth the various responsibilities of the Department of General Services and other state agencies in overseeing and implementing state contracting procedures and policies. This bill would require the department to post specific information on its Internet Web site pertaining to California state government contracts for services, and would require the Governor's Budget to identify total expenditures for service contracts. 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 10373 is added to the Public Contract Code, to read: 10373. (a) The Department of General Services shall establish and maintain an online database of service contracts that is accessible, searchable, sortable, and downloadable. The database shall include all of the following: (1) Description of the contract and services being purchased. (2) Name of the department, agency, or division contracting for the service. (3) Name of the contractor and any and all subcontractors. (4) Effective and expiration dates of the contract. (5) Annual amount paid to the contractor in past fiscal years and the current fiscal year under the contract, by funding source. (6) Annual amount proposed to be paid to the contractor in the fiscal years beyond the approved budget. (7) Total projected cost of the contract for all fiscal years, by funding source. (8) A list of private contractor employees for each contract, reflected as full-time equivalent positions, their hourly wage rates, and the number of private contractor employees and consultants for the current and previous fiscal years. (b) The information listed in subdivision (a) shall be compiled in an annual Service Contractor Expenditure Budget accompanying the Governor's Budget, detailing total spending on total service contracts for California state government.