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Bill	Local ballot measures: bond issues.	Existing law requires all bond issues proposed by a county, city and county, city, district, or other political subdivision, or by any agency, department, or board thereof, to be submitted to the voters for approval. Existing law requires all official materials for the bond issue proposal to contain a statement of specified tax rate data.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2551	California AB 2551 (20132014)	bill	Local ballot measures: bond issues.	enacted	Wilk	6	22	6	2014-02-21	2014-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/5fa68e98-9175-4785-b52a-4f5f05ebfbf7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2551	3cd723bf0c08732b490de7381033972ae365893b05a67398fb951036a20f130a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2551 (20132014) — Local ballot measures: bond issues.

Existing law requires all bond issues proposed by a county, city and county, city, district, or other political subdivision, or by any agency, department, or board thereof, to be submitted to the voters for approval. Existing law requires all official materials for the bond issue proposal to contain a statement of specified tax rate data.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/23/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2551 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2551 Wilk By Vidak — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2551 WILK Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments Recommend Consent. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2551 WILK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wilk — primary (person)
• Beth Gaines — coauthor (person)
• Gaines — coauthor (person)
• Olsen — coauthor (person)
• Vidak — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2014-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2014-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2014-03-28 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2014-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2014-05-07 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4967.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-22 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2014-05-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E. & C.A. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4550.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-19 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6181.)
• 2014-08-19 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6189.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 908, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5fa68e98-9175-4785-b52a-4f5f05ebfbf7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).