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Bill	Local government: internet websites and email addresses.	(1) The California Constitution authorizes cities and counties to make and enforce within their limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws and further authorizes cities organized under a charter to make and enforce all ordinances and regulations in respect to municipal affairs, which supersede inconsistent general laws.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1637	California AB 1637 (20232024)	bill	Local government internet websites and email addresses	enacted	Irwin	8	30	9	2023-02-17	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/37ca50b1-612e-4424-875d-89a6073af428	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1637	e752e092d1cb58813dbc01965ec1d1688b56c375ca6f0911c3ad14d41fde8018	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1637 (20232024) — Local government: internet websites and email addresses.

(1) The California Constitution authorizes cities and counties to make and enforce within their limits all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws and further authorizes cities organized under a charter to make and enforce all ordinances and regulations in respect to municipal affairs, which supersede inconsistent general laws.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/27/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/18/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1637 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1637 Irwin By Blakespear — 24–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1637 Irwin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–12 (pass) · lower
• AB 1637 Irwin Assembly Third Reading — 56–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Irwin — 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 Coms. on L. GOV. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2023-03-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2023-04-17 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1167.)
• 2023-04-17 (Pending re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P.)
• 2023-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 25). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1580.)
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (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. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 4. Page 2018.) 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 GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-10 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 8. Page 2620.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 12. Page 3377.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 586, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/37ca50b1-612e-4424-875d-89a6073af428. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).