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Bill	State parks.	Existing law establishes the Department of Parks and Recreation and vests the department with the control of the state park system. Existing law authorizes the Director of Parks and Recreation to negotiate or renegotiate a concession contract within state parks if specified conditions exist and generally requires that a concession contract within state parks for a period of more than 2 years be awarded to the best responsible bidder.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2249	California AB 2249 (20152016)	bill	State parks.	enacted	Cooley	9	30	10	2016-02-18	2016-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/06be026e-ee11-420e-b5a5-3913f761f943	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2249	613ac4497ef9cdd112c9ed817766e2b868ce6bf2be92d5c6e8a18faf8f4a26e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2249 (20152016) — State parks.

Existing law establishes the Department of Parks and Recreation and vests the department with the control of the state park system. Existing law authorizes the Director of Parks and Recreation to negotiate or renegotiate a concession contract within state parks if specified conditions exist and generally requires that a concession contract within state parks for a period of more than 2 years be awarded to the best responsible bidder.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/02/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/18/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/21/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2249 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2249 COOLEY Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2249 COOLEY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2249 Cooley By Pavley — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cooley — primary (person)
• Achadjian — coauthor (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Arambula — coauthor (person)
• Bigelow — author (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Brown — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Dababneh — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Gatto — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Gray — author (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Hueso — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Obernolte — coauthor (person)
• Olsen — coauthor (person)
• Patterson — coauthor (person)
• Pavley — coauthor (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)
• Vidak — coauthor (person)
• Wagner — coauthor (person)
• Wolk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2016-03-03 Referred to Coms. on W., P., & W. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-03-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 29). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-03-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-03-31 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-04-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 12). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-18 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5180.) 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 N.R. & W. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 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 5264.). 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 80. Noes 0. Page 6354.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 413, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/06be026e-ee11-420e-b5a5-3913f761f943. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).