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type: "Bill"
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title: "County free libraries: withdrawal: use of private contractors."
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description: "Existing law provides that the county boards of supervisors may establish and maintain, within their respective counties, county free libraries pursuant to specified provisions of law. Existing law provides that the board of trustees, common council, or other legislative body of any city or the board of trustees of any library district may, on or before January 1 of any year, notify the county board of supervisors that the city or library district no longer desires to be a part of the county free library system, as specified."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20112012"
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identifier: "AB 438"
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citation: "California AB 438 (20112012)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["County free libraries: withdrawal: use of private contractors."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Williams"]
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version_count: 14
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action_count: 39
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2011-02-14"
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last_action: "2011-10-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8c071c3-7814-4044-b8fe-a56e97cd3022"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438"
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source_hash: "72f927b38edba6899890ecc6299e57d6a1b5593e0f1883ec7ec307aa794f831a"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 438 (20112012) — County free libraries: withdrawal: use of private contractors.
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Existing law provides that the county boards of supervisors may establish and maintain, within their respective counties, county free libraries pursuant to specified provisions of law. Existing law provides that the board of trustees, common council, or other legislative body of any city or the board of trustees of any library district may, on or before January 1 of any year, notify the county board of supervisors that the city or library district no longer desires to be a part of the county free library system, as specified.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/14/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43899INT)
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2. **03/16/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43898AMD)
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3. **03/29/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43897AMD)
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4. **04/04/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43896AMD)
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5. **05/27/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43895AMD)
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6. **06/01/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43894AMD)
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7. **06/27/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43893AMD)
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8. **07/12/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43892AMD)
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9. **08/18/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43891AMD)
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10. **08/29/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43890AMD)
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11. **09/02/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43889AMD)
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12. **10/08/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43887CHP)
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13. **AB438** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438)
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14. **09/20/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB438&version=20110AB43888ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 438 WILLIAMS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **45–28** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB438 Williams By Hancock — **24–15** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **11–5** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **6–3** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–2** (pass) · lower
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- AB 438 WILLIAMS Assembly Third Reading Amend By WILLIAMS Set #1 — **49–26** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended. — **6–3** (pass) · upper
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- AB 438 WILLIAMS Assembly Third Reading — **43–28** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Williams — primary (person)
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- Fuentes — coauthor (person)
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- Hancock — coauthor (person)
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- Wolk — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2011-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2011-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
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- **2011-03-03** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-03-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-03-17** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-03-30** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-04-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2011-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-04-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2011-05-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-05-27** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (May 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2011-05-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-05-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2011-06-01** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 49. Noes 26. Page 1692.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-06-02** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-06-02** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1785.)
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- **2011-06-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2011-06-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2011-06-03** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 47. Noes 25. Page 1862.)
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- **2011-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 43. Noes 28. Page 1864.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2011-06-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2011-06-16** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-06-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2011-07-11** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (July 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2011-07-12** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-08-18** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2011-08-29** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2011-09-02** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-09-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2011-09-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 15. Page 2395.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2011-09-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2011-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 45. Noes 28. Page 3147.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
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- **2011-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2011-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 611, Statutes of 2011.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8c071c3-7814-4044-b8fe-a56e97cd3022`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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