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Bill	Elections: County of Orange Citizens Redistricting Commission.	Existing law requires the board of supervisors, following a county's decision to elect its board using district-based elections or following each decennial federal census for a county whose board is already elected using district-based elections, by ordinance or resolution, to adjust the boundaries of all of the supervisorial districts of the county so that the districts are as nearly equal in population as possible and comply with applicable federal law, and specifies the procedures the board of supervisors must follow in adjusting those boundaries. Existing law establishes the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Riverside and the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Fresno, which are charged with adjusting the supervisorial district boundaries for their respective counties.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 34	California AB 34 (20232024)	bill	County of Orange Citizens Redistricting Commission Elections	enacted	Valencia	9	34	12	2022-12-05	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/874fa209-c012-4a2d-8b7d-b5db426d4be0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB34	294f2e685035ba1457c17406ba1ba458625315f0b4e8a92e35f4d81fa7ddabe6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 34 (20232024) — Elections: County of Orange Citizens Redistricting Commission.

Existing law requires the board of supervisors, following a county's decision to elect its board using district-based elections or following each decennial federal census for a county whose board is already elected using district-based elections, by ordinance or resolution, to adjust the boundaries of all of the supervisorial districts of the county so that the districts are as nearly equal in population as possible and comply with applicable federal law, and specifies the procedures the board of supervisors must follow in adjusting those boundaries. Existing law establishes the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Riverside and the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Fresno, which are charged with adjusting the supervisorial district boundaries for their respective counties.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/12/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/14/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB34 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 34 Valencia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–16 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB34 Valencia et al. By Umberg Motion To Reconsider — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB34 Valencia et al. By Umberg — 31–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB34 Valencia et al. By Umberg — 31–7 (pass) · upper
• AB 34 Valencia Assembly Third Reading — 61–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Valencia — primary (person)
• Min — principal coauthor (person)
• Newman — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Umberg — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-12-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-12-06 From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
• 2023-03-23 Referred to Coms. on ELECTIONS and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2023-03-23 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
• 2023-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 15. Page 1702.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-31 Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2023-06-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-08-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-21 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
• 2023-09-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 2401.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-06 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2401.)
• 2023-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-07 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2637.). 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 62. Noes 16. Page 3348.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 315, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/874fa209-c012-4a2d-8b7d-b5db426d4be0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).