republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/sb-428.md

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California SB 428 (20112012) — Lester's Law of 2011.

(1) Existing law generally regulates governmental access to financial records. Existing law provides that the dissemination of records pursuant to specified provisions shall not be prohibited.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/27/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/17/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/31/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/27/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/18/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/21/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB428 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #4 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 428 Strickland Senate Third Reading By AMMIANO — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB428 Strickland Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Strickland — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
• 2011-02-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-03-17 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2011-04-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 862.) (May 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-06 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2011-05-09 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-05-13 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2011-05-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-23 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2011-05-25 Set for hearing May 26.
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 1116.) (May 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-06-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1283.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-13 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. 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
• 2011-06-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-06 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-14 From consent calendar.
• 2011-07-14 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-08-18 Read third time and amended. (Page 2450.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-18 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-08-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2508.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-22 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2144.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2011-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 304, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/18f7b5e4-5caa-4571-9990-589c7e4e4c62. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).