---
type: "Bill"
title: "State government."
description: "Existing law authorizes specified state departments and authorities, upon determination that an advance payment is essential for the effective implementation of a program, to advance to a community-based private nonprofit agency with which it has contracted for the delivery of services, funds not exceeding 25% of the annual allocation to be made to the agency during the fiscal year. Existing law requires these departments and authorities to develop a plan to establish control procedures for advance payments. Existing law requires a plan to be approved by the Department of Finance and to include a procedure for determining whether an advance payment is essential for the effective implementation of a program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2889"
citation: "California AB 2889 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State government."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Health"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-02-29"
last_action: "2016-08-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26edbf86-68e4-4101-97c4-be21961f18a6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2889"
source_hash: "d2ce1ada46f5d6c420e04ec3bf4be45753d3a5e01828a12ad10ea976a5066699"
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 2889 (20152016) — State government.

Existing law authorizes specified state departments and authorities, upon determination that an advance payment is essential for the effective implementation of a program, to advance to a community-based private nonprofit agency with which it has contracted for the delivery of services, funds not exceeding 25% of the annual allocation to be made to the agency during the fiscal year. Existing law requires these departments and authorities to develop a plan to establish control procedures for advance payments. Existing law requires a plan to be approved by the Department of Finance and to include a procedure for determining whether an advance payment is essential for the effective implementation of a program.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/29/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2889&version=20150AB288999INT)
2. **08/29/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2889&version=20150AB288997CHP)
3. **AB2889** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2889)
4. **08/12/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2889&version=20150AB288998ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2889 Committee On HEALTH — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2889 HEALTH Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Health — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-29** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
- **2016-03-28** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-27** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4688.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-01** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2016-08-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4874.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2016-08-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-08-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 228, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26edbf86-68e4-4101-97c4-be21961f18a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).