---
type: "Bill"
title: "State employment: memorandum of understanding: Bargaining Unit 7."
description: "(1) Existing law provides that a provision of a memorandum of understanding reached between the state employer and a recognized employee organization representing state civil service employees that requires the expenditure of funds does not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1627"
citation: "California AB 1627 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["State employment: memorandum of understanding: Bargaining Unit 7."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2016-01-07"
last_action: "2016-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/366d2571-040b-476c-821d-198d52e7da40"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1627"
source_hash: "b111f0604239004ef1d6928e4b6950351f14ec020bb93a503816ae1855716ab2"
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 1627 (20152016) — State employment: memorandum of understanding: Bargaining Unit 7.

(1) Existing law provides that a provision of a memorandum of understanding reached between the state employer and a recognized employee organization representing state civil service employees that requires the expenditure of funds does not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/07/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1627&version=20150AB162799INT)
2. **04/14/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1627&version=20150AB162798AMD)
3. **08/11/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1627&version=20150AB162797AMD)
4. **09/13/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1627&version=20150AB162795CHP)
5. **AB1627** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1627)
6. **08/29/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1627&version=20150AB162796ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1627 Committee On BUDGET (Ting) By Leno — **32–4** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **13–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 1627 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By TING — **51–26** (pass) · lower
- AB 1627 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-01-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-01-08** From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
- **2016-02-01** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-25** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 25. Page 4488.)
- **2016-04-25** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-04-25** Ordered to third reading.
- **2016-04-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 26. Page 4583.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-13** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-08-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-08-11** Joint Rule 61 suspended. (Page 4868.)
- **2016-08-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (August 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 5255.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6278.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
- **2016-09-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 321, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/366d2571-040b-476c-821d-198d52e7da40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).