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Bill	Local government: open meetings: cease and desist letters.	Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act (Brown Act) , requires each legislative body of a local agency to provide the time and place for holding regular meetings and requires that all meetings of a legislative body be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend unless a closed session is authorized. Existing law authorizes the district attorney or any interested person to file an action by mandamus, injunction, or declaratory relief to, among other things, determine the applicability of the act to actions or threatened future actions of the legislative body.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1003	California SB 1003 (20112012)	bill	Local government: open meetings: cease and desist letters.	enacted	Yee	8	28	5	2012-02-06	2012-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/41e79443-29cb-4686-a5b0-147d23927597	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1003	9b8105e58b43cbdb5978836f2e49fec9a2bc71423e4a5479b1f8abe9f58ef89d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1003 (20112012) — Local government: open meetings: cease and desist letters.

Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act (Brown Act) , requires each legislative body of a local agency to provide the time and place for holding regular meetings and requires that all meetings of a legislative body be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend unless a closed session is authorized. Existing law authorizes the district attorney or any interested person to file an action by mandamus, injunction, or declaratory relief to, among other things, determine the applicability of the act to actions or threatened future actions of the legislative body.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/03/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/13/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB1003 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/23/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1003 Yee Concurrence — 24–14 (pass) · upper
• SB 1003 Yee Senate Third Reading By ALEJO — 62–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Yee — primary (person)
• Alejo — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-06 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2012-02-07 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 8.
• 2012-02-16 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2012-03-06 Set for hearing March 21.
• 2012-03-19 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-03-22 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2012-04-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-18 Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-20 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2012-05-02 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-05-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-05-03 Set for hearing May 9.
• 2012-05-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3. Page 3457.) (May 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 11. Page 3735.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-06-11 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2012-06-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-13 Read third time and amended. (Page 5895.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-13 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 62. Noes 12. Page 6010.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-21 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 24. Noes 14. Page 4688.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 732, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/41e79443-29cb-4686-a5b0-147d23927597. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).