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Bill	Local government: whistleblower hotline.	Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county auditor or controller to maintain a whistleblower hotline to receive calls from persons who have information regarding possible violations by local government employees of state, federal, or local statutes, rules, or regulations, and requires any investigation conducted pursuant to this authorization to be kept confidential except where release of findings of a conducted investigation is deemed necessary to serve the interests of the public, except that the identity of the individual or individuals involved in the investigation is required to be kept confidential.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1666	California AB 1666 (20092010)	bill	Local government: whistleblower hotline.	enacted	Swanson	7	24	6	2010-01-20	2010-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/2a6d4b53-88c6-4b17-9df2-74c586dab59e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1666	d79c489c5d65a169c87e782a81236e3df1e66c82925ab8913056b749160ab3cb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1666 (20092010) — Local government: whistleblower hotline.

Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county auditor or controller to maintain a whistleblower hotline to receive calls from persons who have information regarding possible violations by local government employees of state, federal, or local statutes, rules, or regulations, and requires any investigation conducted pursuant to this authorization to be kept confidential except where release of findings of a conducted investigation is deemed necessary to serve the interests of the public, except that the identity of the individual or individuals involved in the investigation is required to be kept confidential.

Version chain

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

1. 01/20/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/02/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/24/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/09/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/15/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1666 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/02/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent #28 AB1666 Swanson — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1666 SWANSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1666 SWANSON Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Be referred to Committee on Local Government. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Swanson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-01-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2010-01-21 From printer. May be heard in committee February 20.
• 2010-01-27 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2010-03-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-03-03 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2010-03-04 Re-referred to Com. on RULES by unanimous consent. referral-committee
• 2010-03-11 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 11). referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2010-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2010-05-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-05-10 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-05-13 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5145.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-05-27 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2010-06-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-06-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-06-17 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-06-23 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2010-06-28 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4101.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-06-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-07-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5923.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-07-07 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2010-07-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-07-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 80, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2a6d4b53-88c6-4b17-9df2-74c586dab59e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).