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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: "State employees: travel reimbursement."
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description: "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."
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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 229"
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citation: "California AB 229 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["State employees: travel reimbursement."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Chang"]
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version_count: 10
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action_count: 28
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2015-02-04"
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last_action: "2015-10-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fcb25a01-50cc-4fd3-8f17-aebfb49f5ed2"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB229"
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source_hash: "4a68aaf7449ec854c5245b4832cf84e3a2ced1cf9388d04db7cd0da86df6ea17"
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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 229 (20152016) — State employees: travel reimbursement.
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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.
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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. **02/04/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB229&version=20150AB22999INT)
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2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB229&version=20150AB22998AMD)
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3. **04/22/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB229&version=20150AB22997AMD)
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4. **07/07/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB229&version=20150AB22996AMD)
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5. **07/16/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB229&version=20150AB22995AMD)
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6. **08/18/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB229&version=20150AB22994AMD)
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7. **08/31/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB229&version=20150AB22993AMD)
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8. **10/11/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB229&version=20150AB22991CHP)
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9. **AB229** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB229)
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10. **09/16/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB229&version=20150AB22992ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–1** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB229 Chang By Glazer — **25–11** (pass) · upper
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- AB 229 CHANG Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 229 CHANG Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **74–3** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Chang — primary (person)
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- Brough — coauthor (person)
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- Kim — coauthor (person)
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- Low — coauthor (person)
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- Olsen — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2015-02-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2015-02-05** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
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- **2015-03-26** Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2015-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2015-05-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1561.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2015-06-04** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2015-07-16** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-08-17** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **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`
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- **2015-08-24** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
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- **2015-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-08-31** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 2690.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2015-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 3. Page 3134.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2015-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2015-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 770, Statutes of 2015.
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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/fcb25a01-50cc-4fd3-8f17-aebfb49f5ed2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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