---
type: "Bill"
title: "State agencies: meetings: record of action taken."
description: "The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a state body, as defined, be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend any meeting of a state body. The act defines various terms for its purposes, including \"action taken,\" which means a collective decision made by the members of a state body, a collective commitment or promise by the members of the state body to make a positive or negative decision, or an actual vote by the members of a state body when sitting as a body or entity upon a motion, proposal, resolution, order, or similar action."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 2720"
citation: "California AB 2720 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State agencies: meetings: record of action taken."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ting"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-21"
last_action: "2014-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dee563c0-ad12-49db-a406-d22768846ee5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2720"
source_hash: "6ebfd7ef0e322408095381522e46b0f2d130baf379763c905820fd151aa8baad"
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 2720 (20132014) — State agencies: meetings: record of action taken.

The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a state body, as defined, be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend any meeting of a state body. The act defines various terms for its purposes, including "action taken," which means a collective decision made by the members of a state body, a collective commitment or promise by the members of the state body to make a positive or negative decision, or an actual vote by the members of a state body when sitting as a body or entity upon a motion, proposal, resolution, order, or similar action.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2720&version=20130AB272099INT)
2. **04/02/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2720&version=20130AB272098AMD)
3. **08/07/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2720&version=20130AB272097AMD)
4. **09/20/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2720&version=20130AB272095CHP)
5. **AB2720** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2720)
6. **08/27/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2720&version=20130AB272096ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB2720 Ting By Berryhill — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2720 TING Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2720 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ting — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2014-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2014-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2014-03-17** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-08** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4973.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-22** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-10** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-11** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3929.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-16** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2014-06-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
- **2014-06-23** Returned by the Governor at the request of the Assembly.
- **2014-06-23** Ordered to the Senate.
- **2014-06-23** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2014-08-07** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-08-07** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4499.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6380.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 510, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dee563c0-ad12-49db-a406-d22768846ee5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).