republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-1367.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Political Reform Act of 1974: committee accounts and campaign funds."
description: "(1) The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing, including requiring the reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures and imposing other reporting and recordkeeping requirements on campaign committees. The act prohibits the use of campaign funds for certain purposes, including expenditures that confer a substantial personal benefit that is not directly related to a political, legislative, or governmental purpose. The act makes any person who makes or receives an honorarium, gift, or expenditure in violation of the provisions relating to campaign funds liable in a civil action brought by the Fair Political Practices Commission for an amount of up to 3 times the amount of the unlawful honorarium, gift, or expenditure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1367"
citation: "California AB 1367 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Political Reform Act of 1974: committee accounts and campaign funds."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Low"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2021-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12d5134a-2c36-4063-ba9f-171a4a5092a8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1367"
source_hash: "2f808fd5a6771b8026195feb4c54010e3c1ba1efecbe2bcdd72dcee732b0e5d6"
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 1367 (20212022) — Political Reform Act of 1974: committee accounts and campaign funds.

(1) The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing, including requiring the reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures and imposing other reporting and recordkeeping requirements on campaign committees. The act prohibits the use of campaign funds for certain purposes, including expenditures that confer a substantial personal benefit that is not directly related to a political, legislative, or governmental purpose. The act makes any person who makes or receives an honorarium, gift, or expenditure in violation of the provisions relating to campaign funds liable in a civil action brought by the Fair Political Practices Commission for an amount of up to 3 times the amount of the unlawful honorarium, gift, or expenditure.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1367&version=20210AB136799INT)
2. **03/11/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1367&version=20210AB136798AMD)
3. **03/25/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1367&version=20210AB136797AMD)
4. **04/21/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1367&version=20210AB136796AMD)
5. **07/13/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1367&version=20210AB136795AMD)
6. **09/27/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1367&version=20210AB136793CHP)
7. **AB1367** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1367)
8. **09/03/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1367&version=20210AB136794ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1367 Low Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1367 Low Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1367 Low By Glazer — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Low — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2021-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2021-03-11** Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** 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`
- **2021-03-15** Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** 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`
- **2021-03-26** Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-10** From Consent Calendar.
- **2021-05-10** Ordered to third reading.
- **2021-05-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1585.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-09** Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-16** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2222.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2021-09-01** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
- **2021-09-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2656.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2021-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 315, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12d5134a-2c36-4063-ba9f-171a4a5092a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).