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type: "Bill"
title: "Regional park and open-space districts: general manager: powers."
description: "Existing law authorizes the general manager of any park or open-space district, with district board approval, to bind the district, in accordance with board policy, and without advertising, for the payment of amounts not exceeding $25,000 for supplies, materials, labor, or other valuable consideration for any purpose."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 495"
citation: "California AB 495 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Regional park and open-space districts: general manager: powers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gordon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2015-02-23"
last_action: "2015-08-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/327ccc3c-1ecc-44e0-b032-639060a750ae"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB495"
source_hash: "03e087767ecc1370c397c318955fe7a5249bd33f8692f9bb587c5834c27472bb"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 495 (20152016) — Regional park and open-space districts: general manager: powers.
Existing law authorizes the general manager of any park or open-space district, with district board approval, to bind the district, in accordance with board policy, and without advertising, for the payment of amounts not exceeding $25,000 for supplies, materials, labor, or other valuable consideration for any purpose.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/23/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB495&version=20150AB49599INT)
2. **08/10/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB495&version=20150AB49597CHP)
3. **AB495** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB495)
4. **07/13/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB495&version=20150AB49598ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **90** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB495 Gordon By Hancock — **390** (pass) · upper
- AB 495 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — **790** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gordon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2015-03-05** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 971.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1874.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2015-08-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 149, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/327ccc3c-1ecc-44e0-b032-639060a750ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).