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Bill	County, city, and district initiative petitions.	Existing law permits a proposed ordinance to be submitted to a county board of supervisors, a legislative body of a city, or a governing board of a district by filing an initiative petition with the appropriate elections official, signed by not less than a specified number of voters. Under existing law, before a proponent of a county or city initiative measure may circulate an initiative petition for signatures, he or she is required to file specified materials with the elections official, including a notice of intention to do so and the written text of the initiative. Under existing law, before a proponent of a district initiative measure may circulate an initiative petition for signatures, he or she is required to publish or post a notice of intention to do so and a statement of the reasons for the initiative petition.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1851	California AB 1851 (20112012)	bill	County city and district initiative petitions.	enacted	Allen	7	25	6	2012-02-22	2012-09-07	openstates	ocd-bill/f973e11c-d617-47b6-b657-1a9b7276d797	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1851	24926639fb47bde6e8a87a8973503886fc78c384f6686449c1780c83bc79798a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1851 (20112012) — County, city, and district initiative petitions.

Existing law permits a proposed ordinance to be submitted to a county board of supervisors, a legislative body of a city, or a governing board of a district by filing an initiative petition with the appropriate elections official, signed by not less than a specified number of voters. Under existing law, before a proponent of a county or city initiative measure may circulate an initiative petition for signatures, he or she is required to file specified materials with the elections official, including a notice of intention to do so and the written text of the initiative. Under existing law, before a proponent of a district initiative measure may circulate an initiative petition for signatures, he or she is required to publish or post a notice of intention to do so and a statement of the reasons for the initiative petition.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/24/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/07/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1851 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/16/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1851 ALLEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1851 ALLEN Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-22 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2012-03-01 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2012-04-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-24 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4785.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2012-06-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4445.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5902.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2012-09-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 240, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f973e11c-d617-47b6-b657-1a9b7276d797. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).