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Bill	Ralph M. Brown Act: closed sessions.	Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, generally requires that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Existing law authorizes a legislative body to hold a closed session with specified individuals on, among other things, matters posing a threat to the security of essential public services, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2715	California AB 2715 (20232024)	bill	Ralph M Brown Act closed sessions	enacted	Boerner	5	19	5	2024-02-14	2024-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/db55c366-50aa-446b-92b0-16a83d1c858f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2715	832839de99daaa70d7fde0510f97cad4b1cdbb9b8a5197ab2bc54737270a76ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2715 (20232024) — Ralph M. Brown Act: closed sessions.

Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, generally requires that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. Existing law authorizes a legislative body to hold a closed session with specified individuals on, among other things, matters posing a threat to the security of essential public services, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/14/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2715 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2715 Boerner Assembly Third Reading — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2715 Boerner By Wahab — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Boerner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2024-03-04 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2024-04-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-04-24 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
• 2024-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2024-05-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-29 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5203.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-20 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2024-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2024-09-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 243, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db55c366-50aa-446b-92b0-16a83d1c858f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).