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Bill	State government: agency repeals.	Existing law establishes the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and, until January 1, 2012, requires the committee to hold public hearings at specified times and to evaluate whether a board or regulatory program has demonstrated a need for its continued existence. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that all existing and proposed state boards be subject to review every 4 years to evaluate and determine whether each has demonstrated a public need for its continued existence, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1659	California AB 1659 (20092010)	bill	State government: agency repeals.	enacted	Huber	8	31	8	2010-01-19	2010-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/ef05dfd4-8352-49dd-baa5-622f4795bdb1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1659	2a1420ea7299cf44344007caafb708e100c0c2fc719b7a49b109a708028b06e2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1659 (20092010) — State government: agency repeals.

Existing law establishes the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection and, until January 1, 2012, requires the committee to hold public hearings at specified times and to evaluate whether a board or regulatory program has demonstrated a need for its continued existence. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that all existing and proposed state boards be subject to review every 4 years to evaluate and determine whether each has demonstrated a public need for its continued existence, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/19/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/02/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/15/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/30/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1659 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1659 HUBER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB1659 Huber By DeSaulnier — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1659 HUBER Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Huber — primary (person)
• DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
• Niello — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-01-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2010-01-20 From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
• 2010-02-04 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2010-04-06 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 6). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-04-07 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-04-08 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2010-04-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2010-04-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2010-05-05 In committee: Set, second hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2010-05-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-05-28 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-06-02 Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Page 5447.). reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-06-03 Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. (Page 5549.)
• 2010-06-03 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 3. Page 5551.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-06-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-06-10 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and RLS. referral-committee
• 2010-06-22 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on RLS. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-07-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-07-15 Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2010-08-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2010-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-08-16 Received August 13 pursuant to JR 61(b)(14).
• 2010-08-17 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-23 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4773.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-24 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6558.)
• 2010-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6570.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-09-07 Enrolled and to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2010-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 666, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef05dfd4-8352-49dd-baa5-622f4795bdb1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).