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Bill	Department of General Services: State buildings.	Existing law creates the Department of General Services to provide centralized services, including, but not limited to, planning, acquisition, construction, and maintenance of state buildings and property, purchasing, printing, architectural services, administrative hearings, and accounting services. Existing law provides that the department is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of General Services.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1656	California AB 1656 (20132014)	bill	Department of General Services: State buildings.	enacted	Dickinson	8	32	8	2014-02-11	2014-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/2513fb0a-383b-4532-bb40-e55b62152dd0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1656	91bc1631a8eed21825c14291eebe5fee33f1137f68f68bf6b615f14ee7c0e6cb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1656 (20132014) — Department of General Services: State buildings.

Existing law creates the Department of General Services to provide centralized services, including, but not limited to, planning, acquisition, construction, and maintenance of state buildings and property, purchasing, printing, architectural services, administrative hearings, and accounting services. Existing law provides that the department is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of General Services.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/23/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/05/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/19/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1656 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1656 DICKINSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1656 DICKINSON Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1656 Dickinson By Leno — 27–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dickinson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2014-03-28 Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2014-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2014-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5346.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2014-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-08-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-08-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-11 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2014-08-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2014-08-26 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2014-08-26 Ordered to second reading.
• 2014-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 2. Page 4935.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 23. Page 6692.)
• 2014-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 6694.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 451, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2513fb0a-383b-4532-bb40-e55b62152dd0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).