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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "County ballot measures: impartial analysis."
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description: "Existing law requires the county counsel or district attorney of a county in which an election on a county measure is to be held to prepare an impartial analysis of the measure showing the effect of the measure on the existing law and the operation of the measure. Existing law requires the analysis to include a statement indicating whether the measure was placed on the ballot by a petition signed by the requisite number of voters or by the board of supervisors."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "AB 2265"
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citation: "California AB 2265 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["County ballot measures: impartial analysis."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Mark Stone"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 16
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2016-02-18"
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last_action: "2016-07-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e94ad36-0b0a-416a-acc5-e9845b46d8b0"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2265"
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source_hash: "c5bb6d71ec70d8e2f44590721647831e33cbfda251c1bf295d21e97c165c1bb5"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 2265 (20152016) — County ballot measures: impartial analysis.
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Existing law requires the county counsel or district attorney of a county in which an election on a county measure is to be held to prepare an impartial analysis of the measure showing the effect of the measure on the existing law and the operation of the measure. Existing law requires the analysis to include a statement indicating whether the measure was placed on the ballot by a petition signed by the requisite number of voters or by the board of supervisors.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/18/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2265&version=20150AB226599INT)
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2. **07/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2265&version=20150AB226597CHP)
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3. **AB2265** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2265)
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4. **07/07/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2265&version=20150AB226598ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 2265 STONE Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2265 Mark Stone — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Mark Stone — primary (person)
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- Dahle — author (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2016-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2016-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
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- **2016-03-03** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
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- **2016-04-27** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2016-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2016-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4689.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2016-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2016-05-12** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
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- **2016-05-19** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2016-06-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2016-06-13** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2016-06-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4643.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2016-06-30** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2016-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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- **2016-07-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2016-07-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 104, Statutes of 2016.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e94ad36-0b0a-416a-acc5-e9845b46d8b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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