---
type: "Bill"
title: "Counties: recommended budget."
description: "Existing law requires the board of supervisors of a county to consider and approve a recommended budget, including any necessary revisions to the recommended budget, on or before June 30 of each year. Existing law requires the board of supervisors to conduct a public hearing on the recommended budget, and to adopt a budget on or before October 2 of each year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1253"
citation: "California AB 1253 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties: recommended budget."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davis"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2012-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d85ecfe9-80dd-43be-b1eb-27e288f6fcc0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1253"
source_hash: "d4bf84975f56dafe0f1dccc7f6f54644dcf168132b54d69cb6c6af171f392a48"
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 1253 (20112012) — Counties: recommended budget.

Existing law requires the board of supervisors of a county to consider and approve a recommended budget, including any necessary revisions to the recommended budget, on or before June 30 of each year. Existing law requires the board of supervisors to conduct a public hearing on the recommended budget, and to adopt a budget on or before October 2 of each year.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1253&version=20110AB125399INT)
2. **01/04/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1253&version=20110AB125398AMD)
3. **07/09/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1253&version=20110AB125396CHP)
4. **AB1253** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1253)
5. **06/21/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1253&version=20110AB125397ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1253 DAVIS Consent Calendar Second Day — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2012-01-04** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2012-01-04** 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, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2012-01-12** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (January 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-01-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-01-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 3541.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-01-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-02** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-13** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-06-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3959.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-06-18** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2012-06-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
- **2012-07-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 52, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d85ecfe9-80dd-43be-b1eb-27e288f6fcc0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).