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type: "Bill"
title: "Local government: emergencies."
description: "Existing law requires a governing body of a city, county, or city and county that declared a local emergency to review the need for continuing the local emergency at its regularly scheduled meetings, but at least every 21 days, or, if the governing body meets weekly, to review the need for continuing the local emergency at least every 14 days, until the local emergency is terminated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 486"
citation: "California AB 486 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local government: emergencies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chesbro"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2009-02-24"
last_action: "2009-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b98d2d2e-77b6-4371-aa7a-da71dbae5f51"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB486"
source_hash: "e642f588957e561c8040ad19970c5a11fafd6b8b42b2c9b1cb568a8e3f18ff6d"
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 486 (20092010) — Local government: emergencies.
Existing law requires a governing body of a city, county, or city and county that declared a local emergency to review the need for continuing the local emergency at its regularly scheduled meetings, but at least every 21 days, or, if the governing body meets weekly, to review the need for continuing the local emergency at least every 14 days, until the local emergency is terminated.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/24/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB486&version=20090AB48699INT)
2. **06/29/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB486&version=20090AB48697CHP)
3. **AB486** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB486)
4. **06/16/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB486&version=20090AB48698ENR)
## Votes
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB486 Chesbro — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 486 CHESBRO Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chesbro — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2009-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2009-03-12** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-16** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-20** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-04-23** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1071.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-04-30** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **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. To enrollment.
- **2009-06-18** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
- **2009-06-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-06-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 6, Statutes of 2009.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b98d2d2e-77b6-4371-aa7a-da71dbae5f51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).