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Bill	Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosures.	(1) Existing law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing and activities. Existing law under the act requires advertisements to include prescribed disclosure statements, and defines an advertisement for these purposes. Existing law excludes a number of communications from the definition of advertisement, including electronic media communications for which the inclusion of specified disclosures regarding the funding of the communication is impractical or incompatible with the technology used. Existing law also defines "top contributors" for these purposes to mean the persons from whom a committee paying for an advertisement has received its three highest cumulative contributions of $50,000 or more, and provides that if two or more contributors of identical amounts qualify as top contributors, the most recent contributor shall be listed in disclosures of top contributors for advertisements paid for by committees. Existing law specifies the formatting of disclosures for advertisements that are disseminated as a video, print advertisements, and electronic media advertisements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2155	California AB 2155 (20172018)	bill	Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosures.	enacted	Mullin	9	30	6	2018-02-12	2018-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/23429594-024b-4d45-8713-cb03b3972041	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2155	03b17d3ab0adfee467137914bb4cf8f5cfcc4984e768e3bb964db637c9b4fe99	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2155 (20172018) — Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosures.

(1) Existing law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing and activities. Existing law under the act requires advertisements to include prescribed disclosure statements, and defines an advertisement for these purposes. Existing law excludes a number of communications from the definition of advertisement, including electronic media communications for which the inclusion of specified disclosures regarding the funding of the communication is impractical or incompatible with the technology used. Existing law also defines "top contributors" for these purposes to mean the persons from whom a committee paying for an advertisement has received its three highest cumulative contributions of $50,000 or more, and provides that if two or more contributors of identical amounts qualify as top contributors, the most recent contributor shall be listed in disclosures of top contributors for advertisements paid for by committees. Existing law specifies the formatting of disclosures for advertisements that are disseminated as a video, print advertisements, and electronic media advertisements.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/05/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/30/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/13/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/15/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/26/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2155 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2155 Mullin By Hill — 28–5 (pass) · upper
• AB 2155 MULLIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 66–6 (pass) · lower
• AB 2155 MULLIN Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mullin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2018-03-19 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2018-03-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2018-04-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2018-04-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-30 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-23 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5437.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-15 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 5. Page 5839.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6773.)
• 2018-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 6.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2018-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 777, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/23429594-024b-4d45-8713-cb03b3972041. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).