Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Labor and Workplace Standards Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2820
Provides that a contracting agency may not accept a bid or proposal for a public contract from a covered entity for which the ratio between highest amount of total compensation and lowest amount of total compensation that the covered entity pays employees of the covered entity exceeds 50 to 1.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Digest: Tells a public agency not to take an offer for a public contract from a not-for-profit company if the person who earns the most money at the company earns more than 50 times as much as the person who earns the least money. Takes effect on the 91st day after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.2). Provides that a contracting agency may not accept a bid or proposal for a public contract from a covered entity for which the ratio between highest amount of total compensation and lowest amount of total compensation that the covered entity pays employees of the covered entity exceeds 50 to 1. Requires a contracting agency to disclose the prohibition in an advertisement or solicitation for the public contract and provide in the public contract that a failure to comply subjects the covered entity to a termination of the public contract and debarment or disqualification, as appropriate. Becomes operative on January 1, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the House of Representatives
Sponsor
Its course
January 13 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action3 actions on 3 days
In the House of RepresentativesJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days
Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days
Labor and Workplace StandardsJan 17 to Jun 27 · stopped161 days
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.
In the House of Representatives Jan 13 – Jun 27
- Jan 13Introduced
- Jan 17Sent to Labor and Workplace Standards
- Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 3 actions, as published
- Jan 13First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
- Jan 17Referred to Labor and Workplace Standards.House of Representatives
- Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives