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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Regional park and open-space districts: general manager: powers."
+description: "Existing law authorizes the general manager of any park or open-space district, with district board approval, to bind the district, in accordance with board policy, and without advertising, for the payment of amounts not exceeding $25,000 for supplies, materials, labor, or other valuable consideration for any purpose."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 495"
+citation: "California AB 495 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Regional park and open-space districts: general manager: powers."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gordon"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2015-02-23"
+last_action: "2015-08-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/327ccc3c-1ecc-44e0-b032-639060a750ae"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB495"
+source_hash: "03e087767ecc1370c397c318955fe7a5249bd33f8692f9bb587c5834c27472bb"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 495 (20152016) — Regional park and open-space districts: general manager: powers.
+
+Existing law authorizes the general manager of any park or open-space district, with district board approval, to bind the district, in accordance with board policy, and without advertising, for the payment of amounts not exceeding $25,000 for supplies, materials, labor, or other valuable consideration for any purpose.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/23/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB495&version=20150AB49599INT)
+2. **08/10/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB495&version=20150AB49597CHP)
+3. **AB495** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB495)
+4. **07/13/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB495&version=20150AB49598ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB495 Gordon By Hancock — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 495 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gordon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
+- **2015-03-05** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-04-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 971.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-06-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1874.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2015-08-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-08-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 149, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/327ccc3c-1ecc-44e0-b032-639060a750ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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