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Bill	Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures.	The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Under the act, if the representatives of the public agency and the employee organization fail to reach an agreement, they may mutually agree on the appointment of a mediator and equally share the cost. If the parties reach an impasse, the act provides that a public agency may unilaterally implement its last, best, and final offer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 646	California AB 646 (20112012)	bill	Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures.	enacted	Atkins	9	31	8	2011-02-16	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/0d09c8fd-31b9-4323-a210-61f7a2bdfcfe	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB646	eabe2149d77fa0fc1ca65a6d6469ea8ca20e296172eb57e3b7446f7dc455a26d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 646 (20112012) — Local public employee organizations: impasse procedures.

The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Under the act, if the representatives of the public agency and the employee organization fail to reach an agreement, they may mutually agree on the appointment of a mediator and equally share the cost. If the parties reach an impasse, the act provides that a public agency may unilaterally implement its last, best, and final offer.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/05/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/11/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/27/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/22/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB646 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/09/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 646 ATKINS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 49–27 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• AB 646 ATKINS Assembly Third Reading — 50–25 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB646 Atkins By Lieu — 23–14 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Atkins — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2011-03-07 Referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. referral-committee
• 2011-03-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-24 Re-referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. referral-committee
• 2011-04-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-05-02 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 25. Page 1162.)
• 2011-05-04 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (May 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-05 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-09 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-11 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
• 2011-05-12 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-19 Measure version as amended on May 11 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 25. Page 1737.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2011-06-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-15 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-08-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 2191.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 2910.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 680, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0d09c8fd-31b9-4323-a210-61f7a2bdfcfe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).