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Bill	Developmental services: regional centers.	Under existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, the State Department of Developmental Services is authorized to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities. Existing law requires a regional center to include specified information on its Internet Web site for the purpose of promoting transparency and access to public information, including, among other things, reports on all prior fiscal year expenditures from the regional center operations budget for all administrative services.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 959	California AB 959 (20172018)	bill	Developmental services: regional centers.	enacted	Holden	9	30	8	2017-02-16	2017-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/56b437c5-7641-4ad7-8651-5b85c99d39b3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB959	100889a4a8ac7272b34ff2001b2bc6a13cfd6554c43cf4acaaa7e89f0e3b7239	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 959 (20172018) — Developmental services: regional centers.

Under existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, the State Department of Developmental Services is authorized to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities. Existing law requires a regional center to include specified information on its Internet Web site for the purpose of promoting transparency and access to public information, including, among other things, reports on all prior fiscal year expenditures from the regional center operations budget for all administrative services.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/22/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/13/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/04/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB959 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 959 Holden Special Consent Calendar 1st Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent Calendar # AB959 — 40–0 (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
• AB 959 HOLDEN Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Holden — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-17 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. 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 1489.) 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 HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2017-06-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-06-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-13 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: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 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
• 2017-09-12 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2910.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2017-09-14 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3425.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2017-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 474, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56b437c5-7641-4ad7-8651-5b85c99d39b3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).