republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-229.md

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Bill	State employees: travel reimbursement.	Under existing law and bargaining agreements, the state reimburses employees for all necessary and actual expenses they incur when they travel on official state business.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 229	California AB 229 (20152016)	bill	State employees: travel reimbursement.	enacted	Chang	10	28	6	2015-02-04	2015-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/fcb25a01-50cc-4fd3-8f17-aebfb49f5ed2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB229	4a68aaf7449ec854c5245b4832cf84e3a2ced1cf9388d04db7cd0da86df6ea17	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 229 (20152016) — State employees: travel reimbursement.

Under existing law and bargaining agreements, the state reimburses employees for all necessary and actual expenses they incur when they travel on official state business.

Version chain

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

1. 02/04/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/07/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/16/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/18/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/11/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB229 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/16/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB229 Chang By Glazer — 25–11 (pass) · upper
• AB 229 CHANG Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 229 CHANG Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chang — primary (person)
• Brough — coauthor (person)
• Kim — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Olsen — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-04 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-05 From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-13 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1561.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2015-07-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (July 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-08-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-24 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2015-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-31 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 2690.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 3. Page 3134.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 770, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fcb25a01-50cc-4fd3-8f17-aebfb49f5ed2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).