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Bill	Local government: open meetings.	The Ralph M. Brown Act requires each legislative body of a local agency to provide the time and place for holding regular meetings and requires that all meetings of a legislative body be open and public. Under the act, all persons are permitted to attend any meeting of the legislative body of a local agency, unless a closed session is authorized. Under the act, the legislative body of a local agency is authorized to hold closed sessions with the Attorney General, district attorney, agency counsel, sheriff, or chief of police, or their respective deputies, or a security consultant or a security operations manager, on matters posing a threat to the security of public buildings, a threat to the security of essential public services, as specified, or a threat to the public's right of access to public services or public facilities.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 246	California AB 246 (20132014)	bill	Local government: open meetings.	enacted	Bradford	4	15	4	2013-02-06	2013-06-24	openstates	ocd-bill/b82de081-3987-4ece-bd58-9651d431bb17	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB246	fbd9b6c70785909311cd4c5151d7cd98abb545148ee367747ac4445041c45f38	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 246 (20132014) — Local government: open meetings.

The Ralph M. Brown Act requires each legislative body of a local agency to provide the time and place for holding regular meetings and requires that all meetings of a legislative body be open and public. Under the act, all persons are permitted to attend any meeting of the legislative body of a local agency, unless a closed session is authorized. Under the act, the legislative body of a local agency is authorized to hold closed sessions with the Attorney General, district attorney, agency counsel, sheriff, or chief of police, or their respective deputies, or a security consultant or a security operations manager, on matters posing a threat to the security of public buildings, a threat to the security of essential public services, as specified, or a threat to the public's right of access to public services or public facilities.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/24/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB246 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/05/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB246 Bradford By Hernandez — 32–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 246 BRADFORD Assembly Third Reading — 69–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bradford — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
• 2013-02-15 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2013-04-04 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-04-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 5. Page 916.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-04-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-04-25 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2013-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 1222.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-06-03 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2013-06-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:10 p.m.
• 2013-06-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-06-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 11, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b82de081-3987-4ece-bd58-9651d431bb17. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).