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Bill	Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign funds: security expenses.	The Political Reform Act of 1974 regulates the use of campaign funds held by candidates for elective office, elected officers, and campaign committees. The act authorizes a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system if specified conditions are met. These conditions include that the candidate or elected officer has received threats to physical safety that have been verified by law enforcement and that no more than $5,000 in campaign funds be used for this purpose.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2041	California AB 2041 (20232024)	bill	Political Reform Act of 1974 campaign funds security expenses	enacted	Bonta	7	25	6	2024-02-01	2024-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/ccf6e690-30b4-4988-9b6f-e91f4babe14e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2041	87526dc16a7f50f8412200ea3919e6eb2ed402ab52363f809aadeaa1c34420e8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2041 (20232024) — Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign funds: security expenses.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 regulates the use of campaign funds held by candidates for elective office, elected officers, and campaign committees. The act authorizes a candidate or elected officer to use campaign funds to pay or reimburse the state for the costs of installing and monitoring a home or office electronic security system if specified conditions are met. These conditions include that the candidate or elected officer has received threats to physical safety that have been verified by law enforcement and that no more than $5,000 in campaign funds be used for this purpose.

Version chain

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

1. 02/01/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/13/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/12/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/22/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/22/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2041 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2041 Bonta Third Reading Urgency — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2041 Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2041 Bonta et al. By Menjivar Urgency Clause — 34–5 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonta — primary (person)
• Ashby — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-01 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-02 From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
• 2024-02-12 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2024-03-13 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
• 2024-03-14 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 10). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 4989.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-04-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-08 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2024-06-03 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-24 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-31 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 5.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-09-01 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-10 Enrolled measure version corrected.
• 2024-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 372, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ccf6e690-30b4-4988-9b6f-e91f4babe14e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).