republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1509.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Political Reform Act of 1974: statement of economic interests."
description: "The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires persons holding specified public offices to file disclosures of investments, real property interests, and income within specified periods of assuming or leaving office, and annually while holding the office. Specified local elected officers file their statements of economic interests with the city clerk or county clerk, who makes and retains a copy of each statement and forwards the original to the Fair Political Practices Commission, which is the filing officer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1509"
citation: "California AB 1509 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Political Reform Act of 1974: statement of economic interests."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hayashi"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2012-01-12"
last_action: "2012-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e368c12-1c03-42b9-9e33-95098a78e8ce"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1509"
source_hash: "1a2f761b38524508de1f10ea9617e9f84bdaea486e17fe3b01c781785ec238de"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1509 (20112012) — Political Reform Act of 1974: statement of economic interests.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires persons holding specified public offices to file disclosures of investments, real property interests, and income within specified periods of assuming or leaving office, and annually while holding the office. Specified local elected officers file their statements of economic interests with the city clerk or county clerk, who makes and retains a copy of each statement and forwards the original to the Fair Political Practices Commission, which is the filing officer.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/12/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1509&version=20110AB150999INT)
2. **09/24/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1509&version=20110AB150997CHP)
3. **AB1509** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1509)
4. **08/29/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1509&version=20110AB150998ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Local Government to Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Governance and Finance Recommend Consent. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations to Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1509 Hayashi By Wright — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1509 HAYASHI Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hayashi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-01-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-01-13** From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
- **2012-01-19** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4888.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-24** Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-09** From consent calendar.
- **2012-08-09** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4742.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-24** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 498, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e368c12-1c03-42b9-9e33-95098a78e8ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).