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ASSEMBLY BILL 1013 (MUNNELL – 1959)

CHAPTER 1869, STATUTES OF 1959, AB 1012

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As enacted Assembly Bill 1013 was a single-section bill that added now former section 53024 to the Government Code.  (See Exhibit #1b)  Assembly member Munnell introduced the bill on February 3, 1959 at the request of the Associated General Contractors of America.  (See Exhibits #1 and #5, document PE-4)

Assembly Bill 1013 was assigned to the Assembly Committee on Municipal and County Government and the Senate Committee on Local Government where policy issues raised by the bill were considered.  (See Exhibit #2)  There no amendments made to Assembly Bill 1013 during the legislative process.  (See Exhibits #1b and #2)  Subsequent to legislative approval, Governor Edmund G. Brown signed the bill on June 20, 1959, and it was recorded by the Secretary of State on July 16, 1959 as Chapter 1869 of the Statutes of 1959.  (See Exhibits #1b and #2)

The Legislative Counsel analysis of Assembly Bill 1013 described the bill as follows:
 

Prescribes, with respect to contracts with local agencies for public works of an amount exceeding $5,000, that progress payments shall not be made in excess of 90 percent of actual work completed plus a like percentage of the value of material delivered or stored
subject to the agency’s control.  Requires the local agency to withhold at least 10 percent of the contract price until completion and acceptance, but provides that, after 50 percent of the work has been completed, if the legislative body finds that satisfactory progress payments in full for actual work completed or may withhold up to 10 percent thereof as appropriate.
(See Exhibit #5, document PE-3)