republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-176.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maintenance of the codes."
description: "Existing law establishes the California Law Revision Commission. Existing law authorizes the commission to recommend changes in the law as it deems necessary to modify or eliminate antiquated and inequitable rules of law and bring the law into harmony with modern conditions. Existing law requires the commission to file a report at each regular session of the Legislature containing a calendar of topics selected by the commission for study, which is subject to approval by concurrent resolution of the Legislature. Existing law authorizes the commission to recommend revisions to correct technical or minor defects in the statutes without the prior concurrent resolution of the Legislature referring the matter to it for study."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 176"
citation: "California AB 176 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Maintenance of the codes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Silva"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2009-02-02"
last_action: "2009-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b05e5f7f-07cd-4831-a3d3-8d02e2985d7e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB176"
source_hash: "680853d084165b84ffad5f09555139f11180bb0b6a0c83a4b4090bd3f1b2caf2"
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 176 (20092010) — Maintenance of the codes.

Existing law establishes the California Law Revision Commission. Existing law authorizes the commission to recommend changes in the law as it deems necessary to modify or eliminate antiquated and inequitable rules of law and bring the law into harmony with modern conditions. Existing law requires the commission to file a report at each regular session of the Legislature containing a calendar of topics selected by the commission for study, which is subject to approval by concurrent resolution of the Legislature. Existing law authorizes the commission to recommend revisions to correct technical or minor defects in the statutes without the prior concurrent resolution of the Legislature referring the matter to it for study.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/02/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB176&version=20090AB17699INT)
2. **05/06/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB176&version=20090AB17698AMD)
3. **08/06/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB176&version=20090AB17696CHP)
4. **AB176** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB176)
5. **06/22/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB176&version=20090AB17697ENR)

## Votes

- AB 176 SILVA Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB176 Silva — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 176 SILVA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Silva — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-02** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-03** From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
- **2009-03-04** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-17** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (March 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-03-18** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-03-23** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 626.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-03-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-04-30** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-06-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-10** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-15** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1296.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-06-18** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 2173.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-06-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:50 a.m.
- **2009-07-01** Withdrawn from Governor.
- **2009-07-01** Ordered returned to enrollment.
- **2009-07-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2009-08-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-08-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 88, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b05e5f7f-07cd-4831-a3d3-8d02e2985d7e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).