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Bill	State government: budget: state publications: format.	The California Constitution requires the Governor to submit a budget for the ensuing fiscal year to the Legislature within the first 10 days of each regular session. Existing law requires that budget to contain a complete plan and itemized statement of all proposed expenditures of the state provided by existing law or recommended by the Governor, and of all estimated revenues, as specified. Existing law requires the budget to be prepared in a specified manner.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 978	California SB 978 (20232024)	bill	State government budget format state publications	enacted	Seyarto	5	24	7	2024-01-29	2024-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/7b2d6eff-dda7-4e0f-8920-cf7eaca90466	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB978	f81228f5591c2eaed3cd66de3952b80314ea027b18e6ed6c763c686c453801c9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 978 (20232024) — State government: budget: state publications: format.

The California Constitution requires the Governor to submit a budget for the ensuing fiscal year to the Legislature within the first 10 days of each regular session. Existing law requires that budget to contain a complete plan and itemized statement of all proposed expenditures of the state provided by existing law or recommended by the Governor, and of all estimated revenues, as specified. Existing law requires the budget to be prepared in a specified manner.

Version chain

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

1. 01/29/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/16/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/22/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB978 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/28/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 978 Seyarto Senate Third Reading By Lackey — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Seyarto — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-29 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-30 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 29.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 Set for hearing March 12.
• 2024-03-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0. Page 3283.) (March 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-05 Set for hearing April 15.
• 2024-04-15 April 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3966.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4208.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-06-10 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2024-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-02 July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6524.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2024-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 451, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7b2d6eff-dda7-4e0f-8920-cf7eaca90466. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).