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Bill	Local agency meetings: agenda: online posting.	(1) The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency, as those terms are defined, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The act further requires the legislative body of a local agency to post, at least 72 hours before the meeting, an agenda containing a brief general description of each item of business to be transacted or discussed at a regular meeting, in a location that is freely accessible to members of the public and to provide a notice containing similar information with respect to a special meeting at least 24 hours prior to the special meeting. The act requires that the agenda or notice be freely accessible to members of the public and be posted on the local agency's Internet Web site, if the local agency has one.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2257	California AB 2257 (20152016)	bill	Local agency meetings: agenda: online posting.	enacted	Maienschein	8	28	6	2016-02-18	2016-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/c2482a22-ab97-4cf3-bd40-20cbd85be3c9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2257	dd1f4067791f4ad78a8b2da5a36973162827aa984702957bd126e43ee2f52f2c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2257 (20152016) — Local agency meetings: agenda: online posting.

(1) The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency, as those terms are defined, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The act further requires the legislative body of a local agency to post, at least 72 hours before the meeting, an agenda containing a brief general description of each item of business to be transacted or discussed at a regular meeting, in a location that is freely accessible to members of the public and to provide a notice containing similar information with respect to a special meeting at least 24 hours prior to the special meeting. The act requires that the agenda or notice be freely accessible to members of the public and be posted on the local agency's Internet Web site, if the local agency has one.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/11/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/22/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/09/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2257 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/23/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2257 MAIENSCHEIN Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2257 Maienschein By Hill — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2257 MAIENSCHEIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Brough — coauthor (person)
• Chang — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Jones — 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 Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2016-03-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2016-04-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-05-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4901.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2016-06-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-06-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-29 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 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4963.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6035.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 265, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c2482a22-ab97-4cf3-bd40-20cbd85be3c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).