---
type: "Bill"
title: "Counties: budgets."
description: "Existing law requires the board of supervisors of a county to approve a recommended budget, including revisions, on or before June 30 of each year, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 1315"
citation: "California SB 1315 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties: budgets."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bates"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2016-02-19"
last_action: "2016-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f1f1172-0113-49ac-954f-689c6d366cf5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1315"
source_hash: "0206188cedf6bb8659e6a83f59744cbbaa57141753e6d6f957fa3f43820ee36f"
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 SB 1315 (20152016) — Counties: budgets.

Existing law requires the board of supervisors of a county to approve a recommended budget, including revisions, on or before June 30 of each year, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1315&version=20150SB131599INT)
2. **03/28/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1315&version=20150SB131598AMD)
3. **04/07/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1315&version=20150SB131597AMD)
4. **07/01/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1315&version=20150SB131595CHP)
5. **SB1315** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1315)
6. **06/27/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1315&version=20150SB131596ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1315 Bates Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bates — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2016-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2016-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2016-03-03** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-28** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-29** Set for hearing April 6.
- **2016-04-06** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3420.) (April 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-14** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3534.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-14** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5488.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-23** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2016-06-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2016-07-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 56, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f1f1172-0113-49ac-954f-689c6d366cf5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).