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Bill	Electoral college: interstate compact.	Existing law provides for statewide election of a slate of electors to vote in the electoral college for President and Vice President of the United States. Under existing law, each political party selects its slate of presidential electors in accordance with statutory procedures that differ by party.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 459	California AB 459 (20112012)	bill	Electoral college: interstate compact.	enacted	Hill	7	28	6	2011-02-15	2011-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/da344b25-2c36-4377-907f-c749553a3215	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB459	2dec6dd6573a5825625d068e0ffdd772f6b8255c26248e92efd6d2372d1eb624	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 459 (20112012) — Electoral college: interstate compact.

Existing law provides for statewide election of a slate of electors to vote in the electoral college for President and Vice President of the United States. Under existing law, each political party selects its slate of presidential electors in accordance with statutory procedures that differ by party.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/31/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/13/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/14/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/08/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB459 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/15/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB459 Hill By DeSaulnier — 23–15 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 459 HILL Assembly Third Reading — 51–21 (pass) · lower
• AB 459 HILL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 52–15 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Eng — coauthor (person)
• Hancock — coauthor (person)
• Huffman — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Lieu — coauthor (person)
• Ma — coauthor (person)
• Mendoza — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)
• Wolk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2011-03-31 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2011-03-31 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
• 2011-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2011-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-13 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
• 2011-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 2.) (May 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 21. Page 1460.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2011-06-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-06-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-27 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2011-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-14 Read third time and amended. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-14 Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. (Page 1842.)
• 2011-07-14 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-07-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 15. Page 1843.). 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.
• 2011-07-14 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 25. Page 2339.)
• 2011-07-14 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 25. Page 2339.)
• 2011-07-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 15. Page 2340.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2011-08-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-08-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 188, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/da344b25-2c36-4377-907f-c749553a3215. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).