---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local government: county boards: regular meetings."
description: "Existing law requires the board of supervisors of a county to hold regular meetings of the board at the county seat."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 139"
citation: "California AB 139 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local government: county boards: regular meetings."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brownley"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2009-01-20"
last_action: "2010-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7de14d7a-45ec-45c4-89ea-076e123e83e0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB139"
source_hash: "072f08ed84998f3127c933e772735de44e82614c54d0390431bd96b49b6ee149"
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 139 (20092010) — Local government: county boards: regular meetings.

Existing law requires the board of supervisors of a county to hold regular meetings of the board at the county seat.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/20/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB139&version=20090AB13999INT)
2. **01/04/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB139&version=20090AB13997AMD)
3. **01/14/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB139&version=20090AB13996AMD)
4. **04/28/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB139&version=20090AB13995AMD)
5. **05/07/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB139&version=20090AB13998AMD)
6. **07/06/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB139&version=20090AB13993CHP)
7. **AB139** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB139)
8. **06/18/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB139&version=20090AB13994ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 139 BROWNLEY Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 139 BROWNLEY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB139 Brownley — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brownley — primary (person)
- Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-01-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-01-21** From printer. May be heard in committee February 20.
- **2009-02-26** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2010-01-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2010-01-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (January 13). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-01-14** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-01-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-01-25** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 3859.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-01-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-04** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-05-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-06** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after May 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-06-17** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 5696.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-06-22** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:50 p.m.
- **2010-07-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-07-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 34, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7de14d7a-45ec-45c4-89ea-076e123e83e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).