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Bill	Meyers-Milias-Brown Act: impasse procedures.	The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act requires the governing body of a local public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of a recognized employee organization. The act requires, if an agreement is reached, that the parties prepare jointly a nonbinding written memorandum of understanding of the agreement that would then be presented to the governing body or its statutory representative for determination.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 537	California AB 537 (20132014)	bill	Meyers-Milias-Brown Act: impasse procedures.	enacted	Bonta	10	29	8	2013-02-20	2013-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/c6aa25d4-3851-4247-921f-feada714f934	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB537	82a8d1e4516be5dfd46d9cdc50c49c80a2e390c55e9c1536380d488e5e04ba19	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 537 (20132014) — Meyers-Milias-Brown Act: impasse procedures.

The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act requires the governing body of a local public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of a recognized employee organization. The act requires, if an agreement is reached, that the parties prepare jointly a nonbinding written memorandum of understanding of the agreement that would then be presented to the governing body or its statutory representative for determination.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/17/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/12/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/06/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/13/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB537 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/19/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB537 Bonta By Beall — 26–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 537 BONTA Assembly Third Reading — 54–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 537 BONTA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–24 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonta — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2013-03-19 Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. referral-committee
• 2013-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 24. Page 1791.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-13 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2013-06-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-08-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-08-12 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
• 2013-08-19 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 2356.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2013-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 24. Page 3298.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2013-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 785, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6aa25d4-3851-4247-921f-feada714f934. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).