Public contracts: local public entities: project labor agreements.

Existing law sets forth the requirements for the solicitation and evaluation of bids and the awarding of contracts by public entities and requires a project labor agreement for a construction project used or entered into by a public entity, or required of contractors by the public entity, to include specified provisions. Existing law authorizes members of the governing board of a local public entity to choose by majority vote whether to use, enter into, or require contractors to enter into such a project labor agreement for a specific project or projects awarded by that entity and whether to allocate funding to a specific project covered by such an agreement. Existing law prohibits a charter provision, initiative, or ordinance from preventing the governing board of a local public entity, other than a charter city, from exercising this authority on a project-specific basis. Existing law prohibits the use of state funding or financial assistance to support a charter city project if a charter provision, initiative, or ordinance prohibits the governing board's consideration of such a project labor agreement for the project or prohibits the governing board from considering whether to allocate funds to a city-funded project covered by such an agreement. Existing law also prohibits the use of state funding or financial assistance to support any construction projects awarded by a charter city if a charter provision, initiative, or ordinance prohibits, limits, or constrains in any way the governing board's consideration of authority or discretion to adopt, require, or utilize such a project labor agreement for some or all of the construction projects to be awarded by the city, as specified. This bill would delete all of the above prohibitions.