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Bill	Whistleblowers: California State Auditor.	Existing law creates the California State Auditor's Office, which is independent of the executive branch and legislative control, to examine and report annually upon the financial statements prepared by the executive branch. Existing law exempts the California State Auditor from specific provisions of existing law relating to oversight by state control agencies, including specific provisions relating to employment, administration, contracting, fiscal matters, and the adoption of regulations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 31	California AB 31 (20172018)	bill	Whistleblowers: California State Auditor.	enacted	Rodriguez	8	27	5	2016-12-05	2017-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/e4d77a04-3b7e-4778-a818-740acef563a6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB31	794b67a57aba0acfe0cae8deb7c05d25a68410fca507639af2cad65c1c1a591c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 31 (20172018) — Whistleblowers: California State Auditor.

Existing law creates the California State Auditor's Office, which is independent of the executive branch and legislative control, to examine and report annually upon the financial statements prepared by the executive branch. Existing law exempts the California State Auditor from specific provisions of existing law relating to oversight by state control agencies, including specific provisions relating to employment, administration, contracting, fiscal matters, and the adoption of regulations.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/18/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/09/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB31 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB31 Rodriguez By Jackson — 27–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 31 Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rodriguez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-12-06 From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
• 2017-01-19 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-03-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-06 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2017-05-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1486.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-24 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 2938.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2017-09-15 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3520.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 605, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4d77a04-3b7e-4778-a818-740acef563a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).