---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local government: city councils."
description: "(1) Existing law requires a city council to, within 30 days of a vacancy in an elective office, fill that vacancy by appointment or call a special election to fill the vacancy, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1668"
citation: "California AB 1668 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local government: city councils."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Knight"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-01-20"
last_action: "2010-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9b58b38-1612-4eed-8844-ff4d6ec19fcc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1668"
source_hash: "c574fdd719cb46221dd34cf8a88bb6e1f3036bbd7b7a7764063f70b627baa3ad"
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 1668 (20092010) — Local government: city councils.

(1) Existing law requires a city council to, within 30 days of a vacancy in an elective office, fill that vacancy by appointment or call a special election to fill the vacancy, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/20/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1668&version=20090AB166899INT)
2. **03/23/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1668&version=20090AB166898AMD)
3. **03/25/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1668&version=20090AB166897AMD)
4. **05/06/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1668&version=20090AB166896AMD)
5. **05/24/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1668&version=20090AB166895AMD)
6. **07/06/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1668&version=20090AB166893CHP)
7. **AB1668** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1668)
8. **06/22/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1668&version=20090AB166894ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1668 Knight By Runner — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Amend, and do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1668 KNIGHT Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1668 KNIGHT Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Knight — primary (person)
- Cook — coauthor (person)
- Jeffries — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-01-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-01-21** From printer. May be heard in committee February 20.
- **2010-01-27** Referred to Coms. on E. & R. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-22** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-03-23** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-03-24** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-25** 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`
- **2010-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-12** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-15** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 4688.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-04-29** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-24** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-17** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 0. Page 3942.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-06-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5734.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-06-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2010-07-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-07-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 38, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9b58b38-1612-4eed-8844-ff4d6ec19fcc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).