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Bill	Nonprofit organizations: use of public resources.	(1) Existing law prohibits a nonprofit organization or an officer, employee, or agent of a nonprofit organization from using, or permitting another to use, public resources received from a local agency for any campaign activity not authorized by law. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General, any district attorney, or any city attorney of a city with a population over 750,000 to bring a civil action to recover a civil penalty against any person who intentionally or negligently violates that prohibition.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2318	California AB 2318 (20152016)	bill	Nonprofit organizations: use of public resources.	enacted	Low	7	25	9	2016-02-18	2016-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/0b7ae6c9-7f7e-45c8-b24f-4fb59f91d4f4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2318	5505c3656f4de25639a3a9848a82be095298cab0a186846cdb1b041f506d8952	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2318 (20152016) — Nonprofit organizations: use of public resources.

(1) Existing law prohibits a nonprofit organization or an officer, employee, or agent of a nonprofit organization from using, or permitting another to use, public resources received from a local agency for any campaign activity not authorized by law. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General, any district attorney, or any city attorney of a city with a population over 750,000 to bring a civil action to recover a civil penalty against any person who intentionally or negligently violates that prohibition.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2318 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2318 Low By Hill — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2318 LOW Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2318 LOW Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Low — primary (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 E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2016-03-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 30). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-18 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
• 2016-05-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5033.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5484.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2016-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6541.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 825, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0b7ae6c9-7f7e-45c8-b24f-4fb59f91d4f4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).