---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office holding: forfeiture."
description: "Existing law requires certain elected local officers to forfeit their office upon the conviction of a specified crime pursuant to the federal Stolen Valor Act of 2005."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 265"
citation: "California AB 265 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Office holding: forfeiture."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cook"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2009-02-11"
last_action: "2009-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8aa5a5aa-2f2e-4953-9082-7b38d6e99eac"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB265"
source_hash: "6eda5c5e01779e55c6712c99f106cbdee7b7192b356942256339e1ef0c73294b"
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 265 (20092010) — Office holding: forfeiture.

Existing law requires certain elected local officers to forfeit their office upon the conviction of a specified crime pursuant to the federal Stolen Valor Act of 2005.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB265&version=20090AB26599INT)
2. **08/06/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB265&version=20090AB26597CHP)
3. **AB265** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB265)
4. **07/02/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB265&version=20090AB26598ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #11 AB265 Cook — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 265 COOK Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cook — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2009-03-09** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-06** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1369.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-24** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-25** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-06-29** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1521.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-29** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2009-07-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2009-08-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-08-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 93, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8aa5a5aa-2f2e-4953-9082-7b38d6e99eac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).