California 2023-2024 Regular Session

California Assembly Bill AB1030 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 02/15/2023

                            CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1030Introduced by Assembly Member KalraFebruary 15, 2023 An act relating to public contracting. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1030, as introduced, Kalra. State contracting: global deforestation.The State Contract Act governs the bidding and award of public works contracts by specific state departments and requires an awarding department, before entering into any contract for a project, to prepare full, complete, and accurate plans and specifications and estimates of cost. The Buy Clean California Act, requires, among other things, the Department of General Services, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to establish a maximum acceptable global warming potential for each category of eligible materials, as specified. That law requires an awarding authority, as defined, to require a successful bidder to submit a current Environmental Product Declaration developed in accordance with specified standards, for that type of product.This bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that provides that the policy of the state is to ensure that companies that contract with the state are not contributing to tropical deforestation, either directly or through their supply chains.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NO  Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide that the policy of the state is to ensure that companies that contract with the state are not contributing to tropical deforestation, either directly or through their supply chains.

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1030Introduced by Assembly Member KalraFebruary 15, 2023 An act relating to public contracting. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1030, as introduced, Kalra. State contracting: global deforestation.The State Contract Act governs the bidding and award of public works contracts by specific state departments and requires an awarding department, before entering into any contract for a project, to prepare full, complete, and accurate plans and specifications and estimates of cost. The Buy Clean California Act, requires, among other things, the Department of General Services, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to establish a maximum acceptable global warming potential for each category of eligible materials, as specified. That law requires an awarding authority, as defined, to require a successful bidder to submit a current Environmental Product Declaration developed in accordance with specified standards, for that type of product.This bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that provides that the policy of the state is to ensure that companies that contract with the state are not contributing to tropical deforestation, either directly or through their supply chains.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NO  Local Program: NO 





 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill 

No. 1030

Introduced by Assembly Member KalraFebruary 15, 2023

Introduced by Assembly Member Kalra
February 15, 2023

 An act relating to public contracting. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1030, as introduced, Kalra. State contracting: global deforestation.

The State Contract Act governs the bidding and award of public works contracts by specific state departments and requires an awarding department, before entering into any contract for a project, to prepare full, complete, and accurate plans and specifications and estimates of cost. The Buy Clean California Act, requires, among other things, the Department of General Services, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to establish a maximum acceptable global warming potential for each category of eligible materials, as specified. That law requires an awarding authority, as defined, to require a successful bidder to submit a current Environmental Product Declaration developed in accordance with specified standards, for that type of product.This bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that provides that the policy of the state is to ensure that companies that contract with the state are not contributing to tropical deforestation, either directly or through their supply chains.

The State Contract Act governs the bidding and award of public works contracts by specific state departments and requires an awarding department, before entering into any contract for a project, to prepare full, complete, and accurate plans and specifications and estimates of cost. The Buy Clean California Act, requires, among other things, the Department of General Services, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to establish a maximum acceptable global warming potential for each category of eligible materials, as specified. That law requires an awarding authority, as defined, to require a successful bidder to submit a current Environmental Product Declaration developed in accordance with specified standards, for that type of product.

This bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that provides that the policy of the state is to ensure that companies that contract with the state are not contributing to tropical deforestation, either directly or through their supply chains.

## Digest Key

## Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide that the policy of the state is to ensure that companies that contract with the state are not contributing to tropical deforestation, either directly or through their supply chains.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide that the policy of the state is to ensure that companies that contract with the state are not contributing to tropical deforestation, either directly or through their supply chains.

SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide that the policy of the state is to ensure that companies that contract with the state are not contributing to tropical deforestation, either directly or through their supply chains.

SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide that the policy of the state is to ensure that companies that contract with the state are not contributing to tropical deforestation, either directly or through their supply chains.

### SECTION 1.