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Bill	Elections: city and county redistricting.	Existing law establishes criteria and procedures pursuant to which cities and counties adjust or adopt council and supervisorial district area boundaries, as applicable, for the purpose of electing members of the governing body of each of those local jurisdictions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 849	California AB 849 (20192020)	bill	Elections: city and county redistricting.	enacted	Bonta	10	36	10	2019-02-20	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/4e5e2a32-4db9-42ad-a192-60659ccb7fa0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB849	c85fd417ea5d276d3790630a7339398ba903b9f0ddf3c3d3d87c4d639fbfa11b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 849 (20192020) — Elections: city and county redistricting.

Existing law establishes criteria and procedures pursuant to which cities and counties adjust or adopt council and supervisorial district area boundaries, as applicable, for the purpose of electing members of the governing body of each of those local jurisdictions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/17/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB849 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 849 Bonta Assembly Third Reading — 55–20 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB849 Bonta et al. By Hertzberg — 29–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 849 Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 59–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 13–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonta — primary (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2019-03-04 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-03-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-05-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1609.)
• 2019-05-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1760.)
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 20. Page 1945.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2019-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-26 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-07-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2676.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3252.)
• 2019-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 18. Page 3276.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 557, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4e5e2a32-4db9-42ad-a192-60659ccb7fa0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).