---
type: "Bill"
title: "Political Reform Act of 1974: disclosures."
description: "(1) The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing and activities by the Fair Political Practices Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 864"
citation: "California AB 864 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Political Reform Act of 1974: disclosures."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mullin"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-20"
last_action: "2019-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/708dacf3-6bf7-438f-8904-32c3cb8731bc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB864"
source_hash: "06252b0c6d0261f3fb0f3fc6cbf0f2812681cf45a49309fe5b0de3757d635012"
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 864 (20192020) — Political Reform Act of 1974: disclosures.

(1) The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing and activities by the Fair Political Practices Commission.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB864&version=20190AB86499INT)
2. **04/03/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB864&version=20190AB86498AMD)
3. **04/11/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB864&version=20190AB86497AMD)
4. **08/26/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB864&version=20190AB86496AMD)
5. **08/29/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB864&version=20190AB86495AMD)
6. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB864&version=20190AB86493CHP)
7. **AB864** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB864)
8. **09/17/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB864&version=20190AB86494ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 864 Mullin Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB864 Mullin By Hill — **37–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 864 Mullin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mullin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2019-03-04** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 10). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-11** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1476.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-26** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-29** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 2. Page 2853.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2019-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3517.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 558, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/708dacf3-6bf7-438f-8904-32c3cb8731bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).