California SB 983: San Diego Unified Port District: job order contracting: pilot program.

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 03/24/26 - Amended Senate
 02/05/26 - Introduced

 SB-983 San Diego Unified Port District: job order contracting: pilot program.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/22/2026 09:00 PM

SB983:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 22, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 24, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 983

Introduced by Senator Weber Pierson

February 05, 2026

An act to add and repeal Article 48.5 (commencing with Section 20755) of Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code, relating to public contracts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 983, as amended, Weber Pierson.
 San Diego Unified Port District: job order contracting: pilot program.

Existing law, the Local Agency Public Construction Act, sets forth procedures that a local agency is required to follow when procuring certain services or work. Existing law also sets forth specific public contracting requirements for port districts. Existing law establishes the San Diego Unified Port District for the acquisition, construction, maintenance, operation, development, and regulation of harbor works and improvements for the harbor of San Diego and for the promotion of commerce, navigation, fisheries, and recreation and requires the San Diego Unified Port District to comply with the specific public contracting requirements for port districts. Existing law authorizes certain local agencies to engage in job order contracting, as prescribed.

 This bill would establish a pilot program to authorize the San Diego Unified Port District to
 use job order contracting as a procurement method, notwithstanding the specific public contracting requirements for port districts, as provided. The bill would impose various requirements on the job order contracting related to the San Diego Unified Port District, including a $5,000,000 cap on awards under a single job order contract and a $1,000,000 cap on any single job order. The bill would limit the term of an initial contract to a maximum of 12 months, with extensions, as prescribed. The bill would establish various additional procedures and requirements for the use of job order contracting under this authorization. The bill would require the San Diego Unified Port District, on or before January 1, 2035, to submit to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a report on the use of job order contracting under these provisions. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2037.

This bill would make legislative
 findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the San Diego Unified Port District.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 NO 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Article 48.5 (commencing with Section 20755) is added to Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code, to read:

 Article
 48.5. Job Order Contracting by the San Diego Unified Port District 

20755.

 As used in this article:

(a) “District” means the San Diego Unified Port District.

(b) (1) “Longshore and maritime operations” includes all of the following:

(A) The loading and unloading of cargo or materials to and from vessels, or the movement of cargo or materials to and from vessels, or other directly related functions, at the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal, National City Marine Terminal, B St. Cruise Ship Terminal, Broadway Cruise Ship Terminal, or any future cargo or cruise terminal to the cargo’s or material’s point of rest, except
 for the movement of construction materials on a barge, construction staging area, or construction area when used as a construction work platform, rigging and hoisting of construction materials directly from a barge, construction staging area, or construction area when being used as a construction work platform into the construction process, the removal of construction materials directly from the project to a barge, construction staging area, or construction area when being used as a construction work platform, and the movement of construction materials and construction equipment within the construction staging area, from the construction staging are