---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cities: city council: vacancy."
description: "Existing law provides that an office becomes vacant upon the happening of, among other things, the resignation of the person from office before the expiration of the term."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1795"
citation: "California AB 1795 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities: city council: vacancy."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alejo"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-18"
last_action: "2014-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53098bac-ef2f-4a93-ac34-80e09c5abed4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1795"
source_hash: "981c0f144f04cae65fbbdd65f3192e69003647cfe701b1704b5cfb3881634cbf"
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 1795 (20132014) — Cities: city council: vacancy.

Existing law provides that an office becomes vacant upon the happening of, among other things, the resignation of the person from office before the expiration of the term.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1795&version=20130AB179599INT)
2. **05/15/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1795&version=20130AB179598AMD)
3. **06/24/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1795&version=20130AB179597AMD)
4. **08/21/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1795&version=20130AB179596AMD)
5. **09/28/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1795&version=20130AB179594CHP)
6. **AB1795** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1795)
7. **09/03/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1795&version=20130AB179595ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1795 ALEJO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **53–19** (pass) · lower
- AB 1795 ALEJO Assembly Third Reading Amend By ALEJO Set #1 — **55–21** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1795 Alejo By Hueso — **22–10** (pass) · upper
- AB 1795 ALEJO Assembly Third Reading — **47–22** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alejo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2014-02-27** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 55. Noes 21. Page 4960.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 22. Page 5025.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-28** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-24** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **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 22. Noes 10. Page 4833.). `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.
- **2014-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 19. Page 6517.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 725, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53098bac-ef2f-4a93-ac34-80e09c5abed4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).