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type: "Bill"
title: "County free public libraries: withdrawal: use of private contractors."
description: "Existing law provides that the county boards of supervisors may establish and maintain, within their respective counties, county free libraries pursuant to specified provisions of law. Existing law provides that the board of trustees, common council, or other legislative body of a city or the board of trustees of a library district may, on or before January 1 of any year, notify the county board of supervisors that the city or library district no longer desires to be a part of the county free library system, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 583"
citation: "California AB 583 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County free public libraries: withdrawal: use of private contractors."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gomez"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-08-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/457b428e-5f38-430f-ab38-1d08ed7b8571"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB583"
source_hash: "39efd8ab3f64f6e8d51672266c8cb4e70cf7222cbc636d5aad7eea10d9d97268"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 583 (20132014) — County free public libraries: withdrawal: use of private contractors.
Existing law provides that the county boards of supervisors may establish and maintain, within their respective counties, county free libraries pursuant to specified provisions of law. Existing law provides that the board of trustees, common council, or other legislative body of a city or the board of trustees of a library district may, on or before January 1 of any year, notify the county board of supervisors that the city or library district no longer desires to be a part of the county free library system, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB583&version=20130AB58399INT)
2. **08/28/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB583&version=20130AB58397CHP)
3. **AB583** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB583)
4. **08/20/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB583&version=20130AB58398ENR)
## Votes
- AB 583 GOMEZ Assembly Third Reading — **5219** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB583 Gomez By Hancock — **2510** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **71** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **42** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Gomez — 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.
- **2013-03-04** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 19. Page 1456.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Referred to Coms. on ED. and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-06** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2013-06-06** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-13** Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 10. Page 1859.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-15** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2013-08-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-08-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 196, Statutes of 2013.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/457b428e-5f38-430f-ab38-1d08ed7b8571`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).