New P3 Bill Comes Up In California Assembly This Week
Despite opposition from a public engineer union, a new bill addressing California’s use of public-private partnerships for construction projects will be heard Wednesday in the state assembly’s local government committee.
Two weeks ago, Assembly Bill 1756, a measure that would have established a statewide office to assist local agencies with implementing public-private partnerships, was defeated in the Assembly Business & Professions Committee mainly because of some heavy lobbying by the Professional Engineers in California Government, a representative of 13,000 engineers, architects, land surveyors and related professionals who work for the state of California.