---
type: "Bill"
title: "State departments: investigations and hearings."
description: "State departments: investigations and hearings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 260"
citation: "California AB 260 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State departments: investigations and hearings."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frommer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2001-02-14"
last_action: "2001-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b61d96fd-1e78-46e9-b356-b6ae68f1220e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB260"
source_hash: "2e46bdff1f3251a1f132ddef44a175534243b3e9bd63db135497445f1eb50f3d"
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 260 (20012002) — State departments: investigations and hearings.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/14/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB260&version=20010AB26099INT)
2. **07/19/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB260&version=20010AB26097CHP)
3. **AB260** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB260)
4. **07/05/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB260&version=20010AB26098ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB260 Frommer By Escutia — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 260 Frommer Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Frommer — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2001-07-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 74, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-07-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-07-10** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2001-07-09** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2001-07-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 1839.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-06-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-06-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-04-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-04-16** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 5. Page 1014.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-04-05** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-04-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-03-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2001-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b61d96fd-1e78-46e9-b356-b6ae68f1220e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).