---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local government: public records: Internet."
description: "(1) The California Public Records Act requires a state or local agency, as defined, to make public records available for inspection, subject to certain exceptions. The act requires any agency that has any information that constitutes a public record not exempt from disclosure in an electronic format to make that public record available in an electronic format when requested by a person, and requires the agency to, among other things, make the information available in any electronic format in which the information is held."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 169"
citation: "California AB 169 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local government: public records: Internet."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-01-22"
last_action: "2015-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b0b5586-d121-42ee-9c7f-744f29bf7bfe"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB169"
source_hash: "2bd34fd7e6a17103c2613d9a2f93600a3e6cd26f4f39ba311efb99895b710ff9"
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 169 (20152016) — Local government: public records: Internet.

(1) The California Public Records Act requires a state or local agency, as defined, to make public records available for inspection, subject to certain exceptions. The act requires any agency that has any information that constitutes a public record not exempt from disclosure in an electronic format to make that public record available in an electronic format when requested by a person, and requires the agency to, among other things, make the information available in any electronic format in which the information is held.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/22/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB169&version=20150AB16999INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB169&version=20150AB16998AMD)
3. **04/06/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB169&version=20150AB16997AMD)
4. **06/18/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB169&version=20150AB16996AMD)
5. **10/10/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB169&version=20150AB16994CHP)
6. **AB169** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB169)
7. **09/02/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB169&version=20150AB16995ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB169 Maienschein By Hertzberg — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 169 MAIENSCHEIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 169 MAIENSCHEIN Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maienschein — primary (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)
- Chávez — coauthor (person)
- Glazer — coauthor (person)
- Hadley — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Olsen — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-01-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-01-23** From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1346.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-21** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-17** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-06-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-13** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2015-07-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2145.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2666.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 737, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b0b5586-d121-42ee-9c7f-744f29bf7bfe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).