republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-1100.md

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Bill	Open meetings: orderly conduct.	(1) Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency, as those terms are defined, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Existing law requires every agenda for regular meetings of a local agency to provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the legislative body on any item of interest to the public, before or during the legislative body's consideration of the item, that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body. Existing law authorizes the legislative body to adopt reasonable regulations to ensure that the intent of the provisions relating to this public comment requirement is carried out, including, but not limited to, regulations limiting the total amount of time allocated for public testimony on particular issues and for each individual speaker. Existing law authorizes the members of the legislative body conducting the meeting to order the meeting room cleared and continue in session, as prescribed, if a group or groups have willfully interrupted the orderly conduct of a meeting and order cannot be restored by the removal of individuals who are willfully interrupting the meeting.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 1100	California SB 1100 (20212022)	bill	Open meetings: orderly conduct.	enacted	Cortese	9	29	7	2022-02-16	2022-08-22	openstates	ocd-bill/16904d73-2117-44c6-a5cc-b1278c55c691	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1100	1a51c40ee22febc795598e74b429213b8e8dc8741c677b0d92fd00fae81a3b26	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1100 (20212022) — Open meetings: orderly conduct.

(1) Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency, as those terms are defined, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Existing law requires every agenda for regular meetings of a local agency to provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the legislative body on any item of interest to the public, before or during the legislative body's consideration of the item, that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body. Existing law authorizes the legislative body to adopt reasonable regulations to ensure that the intent of the provisions relating to this public comment requirement is carried out, including, but not limited to, regulations limiting the total amount of time allocated for public testimony on particular issues and for each individual speaker. Existing law authorizes the members of the legislative body conducting the meeting to order the meeting room cleared and continue in session, as prescribed, if a group or groups have willfully interrupted the orderly conduct of a meeting and order cannot be restored by the removal of individuals who are willfully interrupting the meeting.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/09/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/21/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/07/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/21/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/06/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB1100 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/05/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading SB1100 Cortese et al. — 29–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• SB 1100 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Low — 57–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1100 Cortese et al. Concurrence — 28–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 9–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cortese — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Low — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-02-16 Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
• 2022-02-17 From printer.
• 2022-02-23 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-08 Set for hearing March 17.
• 2022-03-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-03-17 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 3149.) (March 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-03-22 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2022-03-30 April 5 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-03-31 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2022-04-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-04-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 3436.) (April 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 3580.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-05-05 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-05-26 June 8 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-06-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-16 Coauthors revised.
• 2022-06-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 21). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 5712.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-01 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-04 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 4655.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2022-08-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-08-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 171, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16904d73-2117-44c6-a5cc-b1278c55c691. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).