republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-28.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Governmental reorganization."
description: "(1) Existing law establishes the Office for Citizen Initiative and Voluntary Action within the office of the Governor, and grants it certain powers and duties for the purpose of advocating and encouraging citizen initiative and volunteer action."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 28"
citation: "California AB 28 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governmental reorganization."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Huber"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2010-12-06"
last_action: "2011-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bd7b482-7108-4d06-bc79-64d6a4f3be35"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB28"
source_hash: "3146015b88fde207239c15dfe4040c11b97fc750c9e32f0375f25701f0e18efb"
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 28 (20112012) — Governmental reorganization.

(1) Existing law establishes the Office for Citizen Initiative and Voluntary Action within the office of the Governor, and grants it certain powers and duties for the purpose of advocating and encouraging citizen initiative and volunteer action.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/06/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB28&version=20110AB2899INT)
2. **03/31/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB28&version=20110AB2898AMD)
3. **04/26/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB28&version=20110AB2897AMD)
4. **05/10/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB28&version=20110AB2896AMD)
5. **07/06/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB28&version=20110AB2895AMD)
6. **08/18/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB28&version=20110AB2894AMD)
7. **09/26/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB28&version=20110AB2892CHP)
8. **AB28** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB28)
9. **09/08/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB28&version=20110AB2893ENR)

## Votes

- AB 28 HUBER Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB28 Huber By Negrete McLeod — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 28 HUBER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **63–13** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Huber — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-12-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-12-07** From printer. May be heard in committee January 6.
- **2011-03-31** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-11** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-11** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-05-18** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1567.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-06** 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`
- **2011-07-11** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2011-07-12** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-07-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1864.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-08-15** Ordered to the Senate.
- **2011-08-15** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2011-08-18** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. `reading-3, passage`
- **2011-08-18** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2127.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-09-02** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 63. Noes 13. Page 2828.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2011-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 315, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6bd7b482-7108-4d06-bc79-64d6a4f3be35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).