republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2647.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local government: open meetings."
description: "Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires state agencies and local agencies to make public records available for inspection, subject to specified criteria, and with specified exceptions. Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires the meetings of the legislative body of a local agency to be conducted openly and publicly, with specified exceptions. Existing law makes agendas of public meetings and other writings distributed to the members of the governing board disclosable public records, with certain exceptions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2647"
citation: "California AB 2647 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local government: open meetings."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Levine"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10b870a6-cd60-436b-8ef9-00ddb0f6683f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2647"
source_hash: "321969a11c9b2854d12328d00776366663478f7eed866e328c467f4df6285214"
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 2647 (20212022) — Local government: open meetings.

Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires state agencies and local agencies to make public records available for inspection, subject to specified criteria, and with specified exceptions. Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires the meetings of the legislative body of a local agency to be conducted openly and publicly, with specified exceptions. Existing law makes agendas of public meetings and other writings distributed to the members of the governing board disclosable public records, with certain exceptions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2647&version=20210AB264799INT)
2. **04/19/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2647&version=20210AB264798AMD)
3. **08/01/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2647&version=20210AB264797AMD)
4. **08/04/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2647&version=20210AB264796AMD)
5. **09/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2647&version=20210AB264794CHP)
6. **AB2647** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2647)
7. **08/24/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2647&version=20210AB264795ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2647 Levine Assembly Third Reading — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2647 Levine Concurrence in Senate Amendments By RIVAS, R. — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2647 Levine By Caballero — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Levine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-18** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2022-03-10** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-20** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-25** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-05-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 4654.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-25** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2022-06-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-08-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4875.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5987.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 971, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10b870a6-cd60-436b-8ef9-00ddb0f6683f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).