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Bill	Public Employment Relations Board: final orders.	Existing law creates the Public Employment Relations Board and prescribes its powers, which include administering the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions commonly referred to as the Educational Employment Relations Act, the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act, the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act, the Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations Act, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act. Existing law provides in this regard that the board may decide contested matters relating to the recognition, certification, or decertification of public employee organizations. Existing law permits a party to appeal a decision of an administrative law judge's decision regarding a matter within the board's jurisdiction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 609	California SB 609 (20112012)	bill	Public Employment Relations Board: final orders.	enacted	Negrete McLeod	5	20	6	2011-02-17	2011-09-06	openstates	ocd-bill/09bd975f-b53d-4d35-bc9d-30ca9afb2a49	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB609	5bce30671601e0a1a0010dce8ddbfd5a61e92d2a482f602e24fbe1d0092f0aa2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 609 (20112012) — Public Employment Relations Board: final orders.

Existing law creates the Public Employment Relations Board and prescribes its powers, which include administering the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions commonly referred to as the Educational Employment Relations Act, the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act, the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act, the Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations Act, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act. Existing law provides in this regard that the board may decide contested matters relating to the recognition, certification, or decertification of public employee organizations. Existing law permits a party to appeal a decision of an administrative law judge's decision regarding a matter within the board's jurisdiction.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB609 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 609 Negrete McLeod Senate Third Reading By FURUTANI — 49–26 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB609 Negrete McLeod — 22–15 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 3–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Negrete McLeod — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2011-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-01 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2011-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2. Page 621.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-13 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2011-05-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3. Page 846.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 22. Noes 15. Page 958.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-12 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-05-23 Referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. referral-committee
• 2011-06-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (July 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 49. Noes 26. Page 2391.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-15 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2011-08-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
• 2011-09-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 242, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/09bd975f-b53d-4d35-bc9d-30ca9afb2a49. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).