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Bill Local government meetings: agenda and documents. Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires meetings of the legislative body of a local agency to be open and public and also requires regular and special meetings of the legislative body to be held within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, with specified exceptions. Existing law authorizes a person to request that a copy of an agenda, or a copy of all the documents constituting the agenda packet, of any meeting of a legislative body be mailed to that person. us/states/ca California Legislature 20212022 SB 274 California SB 274 (20212022)
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California SB 274 (20212022) — Local government meetings: agenda and documents.

Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires meetings of the legislative body of a local agency to be open and public and also requires regular and special meetings of the legislative body to be held within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, with specified exceptions. Existing law authorizes a person to request that a copy of an agenda, or a copy of all the documents constituting the agenda packet, of any meeting of a legislative body be mailed to that person.

Version chain

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

  1. 01/29/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 04/05/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  3. 10/09/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  4. SB274 (committee substitute) — source
  5. 08/27/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 50 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass. — 140 (pass) · lower
  • Consent Calendar SB274 — 380 (pass) · upper
  • SB 274 Wieckowski Senate Third Reading By Luz Rivas — 700 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 80 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Wieckowski — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-01-29 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
  • 2021-02-01 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
  • 2021-02-01 Read first time. reading-1
  • 2021-02-10 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
  • 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
  • 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
  • 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
  • 2021-03-11 Set for hearing March 25.
  • 2021-03-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 633.) (March 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-04-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
  • 2021-04-07 Set for hearing April 19.
  • 2021-04-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
  • 2021-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2021-04-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 886.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
  • 2021-04-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
  • 2021-05-13 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
  • 2021-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 7). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-07-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2021-08-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2477.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
  • 2021-08-26 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  • 2021-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
  • 2021-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
  • 2021-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 763, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/691574d0-a6d5-40c7-b3e4-7555000a403f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).