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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Local government: omnibus."
+description: "(1) The Professional Land Surveyors' Act, among other things, requires a county recorder to store and index records of survey, and to maintain both original maps and a printed set for public reference. That act specifically requires the county recorder to securely fasten a filed record of survey into a suitable book."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "SB 974"
+citation: "California SB 974 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Local government: omnibus."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Governance and Finance"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2016-02-08"
+last_action: "2016-09-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d828fcbf-a2c9-4533-b956-75dbace7f7ed"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB974"
+source_hash: "22ec401b74f661200ea850c69a6be24c961bc45de05a6c3a8261ff25ab02b6f2"
+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 SB 974 (20152016) — Local government: omnibus.
+
+(1) The Professional Land Surveyors' Act, among other things, requires a county recorder to store and index records of survey, and to maintain both original maps and a printed set for public reference. That act specifically requires the county recorder to securely fasten a filed record of survey into a suitable book.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/08/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB974&version=20150SB97499INT)
+2. **03/29/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB974&version=20150SB97498AMD)
+3. **06/02/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB974&version=20150SB97497AMD)
+4. **08/04/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB974&version=20150SB97496AMD)
+5. **09/14/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB974&version=20150SB97494CHP)
+6. **SB974** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB974)
+7. **08/26/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB974&version=20150SB97495ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 974 GOV.& F. Senate Third Reading By EGGMAN — **78–1** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Consent Calendar 2nd SB974 Committee On GOV. & F.(Hertzberg) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Special Consent SB974 GOV. & F. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Committee on Governance and Finance — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-02-08** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2016-02-09** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
+- **2016-02-18** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-29** Set for hearing April 6.
+- **2016-03-29** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-04-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3420.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2016-04-08** Set for hearing April 18.
+- **2016-04-18** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2016-04-19** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-04-21** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3631.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-04-21** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2016-05-02** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-06-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2016-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-01** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
+- **2016-08-01** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2016-08-04** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-04** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2016-08-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 5884.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-19** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2016-08-23** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2016-08-25** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5429.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2016-09-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2016-09-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 366, Statutes of 2016.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d828fcbf-a2c9-4533-b956-75dbace7f7ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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