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California SB 751 (20132014) — Meetings: publication of action taken.

The Ralph M. Brown Act requires all meetings of the legislative body of a local agency, as defined, to be open and public and prohibits the legislative body from taking action by secret ballot, whether preliminary or final.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/02/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/17/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB751 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/27/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 751 Yee Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB751 Yee Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #6 — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Yee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-11 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2013-04-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2013-04-19 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2013-05-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 752.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-05-10 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2013-05-20 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2013-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2013-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1118.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-14 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2013-06-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-07-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-08-05 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2484.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2013-08-26 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1970.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2013-09-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-09-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 257, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/042e751b-27a1-4ab6-bc52-b587953699d0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).