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Bill	State agencies: collection of data: race or ethnic origin.	Existing law requires state agencies, boards, or commissions that directly or by contract collect demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians, and state agencies conducting surveys as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of state civil service employees, to use separate collection categories for each major Asian and Pacific Islander group.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 532	California AB 532 (20152016)	bill	State agencies: collection of data: race or ethnic origin.	enacted	McCarty	8	27	8	2015-02-23	2015-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/94ada59f-ef43-4ce4-bfad-3beebef65e78	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB532	47d4ab307a5428c29e48ef20389a63682b406b1beaca28fbdc16958b0b20b4ef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 532 (20152016) — State agencies: collection of data: race or ethnic origin.

Existing law requires state agencies, boards, or commissions that directly or by contract collect demographic data as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians, and state agencies conducting surveys as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of state civil service employees, to use separate collection categories for each major Asian and Pacific Islander group.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/20/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/20/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/31/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/02/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB532 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 532 MCCARTY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 532 MCCARTY Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB532 McCarty By Hall — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• McCarty — primary (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Campos — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Linder — coauthor (person)
• Thurmond — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (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 A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2015-04-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-04-20 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
• 2015-04-21 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
• 2015-05-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1593.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2015-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-09 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2591.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-09 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2990.)
• 2015-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3014.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 433, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/94ada59f-ef43-4ce4-bfad-3beebef65e78. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).