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Bill	California Earthquake Authority: closed meetings.	The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act requires, with specified exceptions for authorized closed sessions, that all meetings of a state body be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend any meeting of a state body. Existing law establishes the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) , administered under the authority of the Insurance Commissioner and governed by a 3-member governing board, to transact insurance in this state as necessary to sell policies of basic residential earthquake insurance. Under existing law, the CEA's governing board is advised by an appointed advisory panel.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1505	California AB 1505 (20232024)	bill	California Earthquake Authority closed meetings	enacted	Rodriguez	10	44	9	2023-02-17	2024-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/9846d6bd-d563-49b8-912e-d5fa4fb621ca	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1505	0d17c74ee4f67d022769fc549a05d5eb60d7ec8f560cf6c44b0f75f7fff4dbac	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1505 (20232024) — California Earthquake Authority: closed meetings.

The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act requires, with specified exceptions for authorized closed sessions, that all meetings of a state body be open and public and all persons be permitted to attend any meeting of a state body. Existing law establishes the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) , administered under the authority of the Insurance Commissioner and governed by a 3-member governing board, to transact insurance in this state as necessary to sell policies of basic residential earthquake insurance. Under existing law, the CEA's governing board is advised by an appointed advisory panel.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/18/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/19/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/03/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/20/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/20/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1505 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/04/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1505 Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1505 Rodriguez Third Reading Urgency — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1505 Rodriguez By Portantino — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rodriguez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2023-03-16 Referred to Com. on E.M. referral-committee
• 2023-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-03 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2014.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-14 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-08-24 From Consent Calendar.
• 2023-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-14 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator McGuire.
• 2024-04-24 From inactive file.
• 2024-04-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(C). referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 Re-referred to Coms. on INS. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-07-01 From Consent Calendar.
• 2024-07-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-27 Re-referred to Com. on INS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2024-08-29 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
• 2024-08-30 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage
• 2024-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 301, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9846d6bd-d563-49b8-912e-d5fa4fb621ca. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).