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Bill	Lobbying: administrative actions.	Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 impose requirements on lobbyists and lobbyist employers involved in administrative actions, and generally define "administrative action" to mean, among other things, the proposal, drafting, development, consideration, amendment, enactment, or defeat by any state agency of any rule, regulation, or other action in any ratemaking or quasi-legislative proceeding. A violation of the act is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1783	California AB 1783 (20212022)	bill	Lobbying: administrative actions.	enacted	Levine	8	30	8	2022-02-03	2022-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/88b6582c-1fb9-4e9b-97cb-b2bcbf2349d2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1783	8e2a8bb48fe0abde5d53820c00587e3f221ba0e6cc1e7287ea7471be38d27682	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1783 (20212022) — Lobbying: administrative actions.

Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 impose requirements on lobbyists and lobbyist employers involved in administrative actions, and generally define "administrative action" to mean, among other things, the proposal, drafting, development, consideration, amendment, enactment, or defeat by any state agency of any rule, regulation, or other action in any ratemaking or quasi-legislative proceeding. A violation of the act is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/03/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/19/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/22/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1783 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/26/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1783 Levine Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1783 Levine Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB1783 — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Levine — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-04 From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
• 2022-03-10 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2022-03-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-14 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2022-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2022-03-30 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-04-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4962.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2022-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-27 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4976.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-24 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 456, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/88b6582c-1fb9-4e9b-97cb-b2bcbf2349d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).