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Bill	State agencies: meetings: record of action taken.	The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a state body, as defined, be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend any meeting of a state body. The act defines various terms for its purposes, including "action taken," which means a collective decision made by the members of a state body, a collective commitment or promise by the members of the state body to make a positive or negative decision, or an actual vote by the members of a state body when sitting as a body or entity upon a motion, proposal, resolution, order, or similar action.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2720	California AB 2720 (20132014)	bill	State agencies: meetings: record of action taken.	enacted	Ting	6	28	6	2014-02-21	2014-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/dee563c0-ad12-49db-a406-d22768846ee5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2720	6ebfd7ef0e322408095381522e46b0f2d130baf379763c905820fd151aa8baad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2720 (20132014) — State agencies: meetings: record of action taken.

The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a state body, as defined, be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend any meeting of a state body. The act defines various terms for its purposes, including "action taken," which means a collective decision made by the members of a state body, a collective commitment or promise by the members of the state body to make a positive or negative decision, or an actual vote by the members of a state body when sitting as a body or entity upon a motion, proposal, resolution, order, or similar action.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/07/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/20/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2720 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/27/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2720 Ting By Berryhill — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2720 TING Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2720 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (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
• 2014-03-17 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2014-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2014-05-08 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-12 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 4973.) 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 Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2014-06-10 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-06-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-06-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3929.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-06-16 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2014-06-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
• 2014-06-23 Returned by the Governor at the request of the Assembly.
• 2014-06-23 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2014-06-23 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2014-08-07 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. passage, reading-3
• 2014-08-07 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4499.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6380.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 510, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dee563c0-ad12-49db-a406-d22768846ee5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).