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Bill	Elections: central committees.	Existing law requires that each member of a county central committee for the Democratic, Republican, and American Independent Parties take and subscribe to an oath or affirmation, as specified. Existing law provides that the oath or affirmation may be taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1200	California AB 1200 (20112012)	bill	Elections: central committees.	enacted	Ma	9	34	7	2011-02-18	2012-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/bfc650e8-b185-4a5b-8c43-f84a942a42b4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1200	55ad93ec88b406710e964d46ca356129e34f35afe41dad24a94ef938652e7b83	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1200 (20112012) — Elections: central committees.

Existing law requires that each member of a county central committee for the Democratic, Republican, and American Independent Parties take and subscribe to an oath or affirmation, as specified. Existing law provides that the oath or affirmation may be taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/28/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/08/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. 03/17/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 04/15/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 05/04/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1200 (committee substitute) — source
9. 03/08/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1200 MA Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1200 Ma By Leno Urgency Clause — 31–1 (pass) · upper
• amendments be concurred in. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1200 MA Concurrence - Urgency Added — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ma — primary (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)
• Dickinson — principal coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Pan — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-17 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2011-03-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-04-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2011-05-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-04 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1781.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-16 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2011-06-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-02-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-02-07 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2012-02-07 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-02-16 Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2012-02-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (February 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-02-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-01 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 1.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-03-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after March 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-03-01 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2012-03-05 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 5). committee-passage
• 2012-03-05 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 2012-03-05 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3919.)
• 2012-03-05 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3920.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:10 p.m.
• 2012-03-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-03-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 8, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfc650e8-b185-4a5b-8c43-f84a942a42b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).