republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-195.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local public employee organizations."
description: "The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act provides for the representation of local public employees by employee organizations and for the execution of memoranda of understanding between those organizations and local public agencies. The act prohibits a public agency or an employee organization from, among other things, intimidating, coercing, or discriminating against employees because they have chosen to join, or not join, an employee organization. Existing law requires a public agency to meet and confer in good faith, as defined."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 195"
citation: "California AB 195 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local public employee organizations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roger Hernández"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2011-01-27"
last_action: "2011-09-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf60b0f4-10f1-44f8-a5eb-feb734f0ed53"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB195"
source_hash: "18850b5e2717ab09b04d07d51ca01988c6678bd650c99968756e62ddfc073626"
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 195 (20112012) — Local public employee organizations.

The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act provides for the representation of local public employees by employee organizations and for the execution of memoranda of understanding between those organizations and local public agencies. The act prohibits a public agency or an employee organization from, among other things, intimidating, coercing, or discriminating against employees because they have chosen to join, or not join, an employee organization. Existing law requires a public agency to meet and confer in good faith, as defined.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/27/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB195&version=20110AB19599INT)
2. **03/21/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB195&version=20110AB19598AMD)
3. **04/14/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB195&version=20110AB19597AMD)
4. **06/06/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB195&version=20110AB19596AMD)
5. **07/11/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB195&version=20110AB19595AMD)
6. **09/07/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB195&version=20110AB19593CHP)
7. **AB195** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB195)
8. **08/24/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB195&version=20110AB19594ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **4–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **3–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 195 HERNÁNDEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **48–27** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB195 Roger Hernández By Vargas — **24–14** (pass) · upper
- AB 195 HERNÁNDEZ Assembly Third Reading — **51–23** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roger Hernández — primary (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-01-27** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-01-28** From printer. May be heard in committee February 27.
- **2011-02-10** Referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-22** Re-referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-13** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (April 13). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-14** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 23. Page 1236.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-19** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-07-11** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 14. Page 1965.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 48. Noes 27. Page 2488.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2011-09-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-09-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 271, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf60b0f4-10f1-44f8-a5eb-feb734f0ed53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).