republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-1726.md

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Bill	Data collection.	Existing law requires any state agency, board, or commission that directly or by contract collects demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians to use separate collection categories and tabulations for specified Asian groups and Pacific Islander groups, and requires a state agency, board, or commission to include data on specified collection categories and tabulations in every demographic report on ancestry or ethnic origins of California residents that it publishes or releases. Existing law requires specified agencies to use additional separate collection categories and other tabulations for major Asian groups and Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander groups, and also requires those agencies to take additional actions, including, among other things, posting, and annually updating, the demographic data collected on their Internet Web sites, and updating the reporting categories to reflect these Asian and Pacific Islander groups as they are reported for the 2020 decennial census.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1726	California AB 1726 (20152016)	bill	Data collection.	enacted	Bonta	8	28	10	2016-01-28	2016-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/4397a476-b056-43a6-af6e-f11c8e8f6c18	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1726	7f2e0d7199ea4a32c253c7051d95af5d90144a8388120490d75d7f40aa0c3b97	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1726 (20152016) — Data collection.

Existing law requires any state agency, board, or commission that directly or by contract collects demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians to use separate collection categories and tabulations for specified Asian groups and Pacific Islander groups, and requires a state agency, board, or commission to include data on specified collection categories and tabulations in every demographic report on ancestry or ethnic origins of California residents that it publishes or releases. Existing law requires specified agencies to use additional separate collection categories and other tabulations for major Asian groups and Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander groups, and also requires those agencies to take additional actions, including, among other things, posting, and annually updating, the demographic data collected on their Internet Web sites, and updating the reporting categories to reflect these Asian and Pacific Islander groups as they are reported for the 2020 decennial census.

Version chain

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

1. 01/28/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/01/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/25/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1726 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1726 Bonta By Pan — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 10–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 14–6 (pass) · lower
• AB 1726 BONTA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1726 BONTA Assembly Third Reading — 54–22 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonta — primary (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• De León — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• O’Donnell — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• Weber — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-28 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-01-29 From printer. May be heard in committee February 28.
• 2016-02-18 Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-03-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-02 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2016-03-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 6.) (May 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 22. Page 5215.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Coms. on ED. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5277.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 6360.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 607, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4397a476-b056-43a6-af6e-f11c8e8f6c18. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).