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Bill	State government: financial and administrative accountability.	(1) The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedures for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. Existing law establishes procedures for notifying interested persons of the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation. Existing law establishes procedures a state agency is required to use to make a determination of whether a proposed administrative regulation or proposed amendment to an administrative regulation has the potential for significant, statewide adverse economic impact directly affecting California business enterprises.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 617	California SB 617 (20112012)	bill	State government: financial and administrative accountability.	enacted	Calderon	8	40	11	2011-02-18	2011-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/ec23122e-42cb-4151-9069-f3f6a8eb76ff	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB617	60b5f9239a1c2d7dc6341179c8f31f09c698b07c3c92bcc40381e1fa52f75359	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 617 (20112012) — State government: financial and administrative accountability.

(1) The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedures for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. Existing law establishes procedures for notifying interested persons of the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation. Existing law establishes procedures a state agency is required to use to make a determination of whether a proposed administrative regulation or proposed amendment to an administrative regulation has the potential for significant, statewide adverse economic impact directly affecting California business enterprises.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/14/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/02/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/08/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB617 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/14/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 617 Calderon Senate Third Reading By DICKINSON — 58–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 617 Calderon Senate Third Reading By BRADFORD Amend By BRADFORD Set #1 — 49–26 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• From committee: That the Assembly Amendments be concurred in. — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Supp 2 SB617 Calderon Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Calderon — primary (person)
• Alquist — coauthor (person)
• Pavley — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2011-03-09 Set for hearing April 12.
• 2011-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 618.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-14 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2011-04-28 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-04-29 Set for hearing May 9.
• 2011-05-04 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
• 2011-05-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 929.) (May 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 982.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-16 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-05-27 Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2011-06-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-11 (Report received July 8 pursuant to J.R. 61(a)(10).)
• 2011-08-18 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-22 From consent calendar.
• 2011-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-09-02 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 49. Noes 26. Page 2826.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-02 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-09-06 Re-referred to Coms. on B., P. & C.P. and A. & A.R. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2011-09-06 Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 2885.)
• 2011-09-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (September 6). Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-09-06 Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 2940.)
• 2011-09-07 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 7). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-09-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-09 Consent granted to take up without reference to file.
• 2011-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 19. Page 3182.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-09-09 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. referral-committee
• 2011-09-09 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on G.O. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 2457.) Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2011-09-09 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 2499.) committee-passage
• 2011-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2487.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 496, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ec23122e-42cb-4151-9069-f3f6a8eb76ff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).