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Bill	Innovation awards.	Existing law authorizes the Department of Human Resources to make awards to current or retired state employees for proposing procedures or ideas that are adopted and put into effect and result in eliminating or reducing state expenditures or improving operations, or for making exceptional contributions to the efficiency, economy, or other improvement in the operations of state government.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2138	California AB 2138 (20132014)	bill appropriation	Innovation awards.	enacted	Gatto	7	24	7	2014-02-20	2014-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/a7303579-093a-4e6f-89a1-2ab19a455ffc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2138	c1488fbaa528eec99064ec5ef40f010b023ed5dfeafb27f83b07d896aba79cef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2138 (20132014) — Innovation awards.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Human Resources to make awards to current or retired state employees for proposing procedures or ideas that are adopted and put into effect and result in eliminating or reducing state expenditures or improving operations, or for making exceptional contributions to the efficiency, economy, or other improvement in the operations of state government.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/29/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2138 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2138 GATTO Assembly Third Reading — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2138 Gatto By Cannella — 31–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gatto — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2014-03-06 Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2014-04-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-02 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-04-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-05-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5096.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2014-06-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-23 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
• 2014-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 4. Page 4658.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-20 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2014-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 678, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a7303579-093a-4e6f-89a1-2ab19a455ffc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).