---
type: "Bill"
title: "Administrative Procedures Act: economic impact assessment."
description: "Existing law requires every state agency subject to the Administrative Procedure Act to provide an initial statement of reasons for proposing the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation. The act requires the initial statement of reasons to include a standardized regulatory impact analysis prepared by each agency that proposes to adopt, amend, or repeal any major regulation, as defined, on or after November 1, 2013."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1711"
citation: "California AB 1711 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Procedures Act: economic impact assessment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cooley"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2014-02-13"
last_action: "2014-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07fcbf91-53e6-4ed4-854b-60dfc53f43d9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1711"
source_hash: "82beafb2cbddec69ef5a9605ec1b17614ad928f978ee0ff26ed9d6a76d990e2b"
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 1711 (20132014) — Administrative Procedures Act: economic impact assessment.

Existing law requires every state agency subject to the Administrative Procedure Act to provide an initial statement of reasons for proposing the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation. The act requires the initial statement of reasons to include a standardized regulatory impact analysis prepared by each agency that proposes to adopt, amend, or repeal any major regulation, as defined, on or after November 1, 2013.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1711&version=20130AB171199INT)
2. **03/20/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1711&version=20130AB171198AMD)
3. **04/03/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1711&version=20130AB171197AMD)
4. **08/21/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1711&version=20130AB171196AMD)
5. **09/29/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1711&version=20130AB171194CHP)
6. **AB1711** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1711)
7. **08/29/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1711&version=20130AB171195ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1711 COOLEY Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality Recommend Consent. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1711 COOLEY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1711 Cooley By DeSaulnier — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cooley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2014-02-20** Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-24** Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-09** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-10** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4598.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-04-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-08** Referred to Coms. on G.O. and E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-08-11** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-12** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-13** From consent calendar.
- **2014-08-13** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-08-21** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4827.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6444.)
- **2014-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6470.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 779, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07fcbf91-53e6-4ed4-854b-60dfc53f43d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).