republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-3123.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: board code of conduct: lobbying rules."
description: "Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) , governed by a 14-member board, with specified powers and duties relative to transportation planning, programming, and operations in the County of Los Angeles. Existing law prescribes a code of conduct for the board of MTA, which includes, among other things, rules pertaining to gifts and financial conflicts of interest. As part of the provisions establishing this code of conduct, existing law requires the board of MTA to appoint an ethics officer who reports to the board. Existing law also requires MTA to appoint an inspector general and requires the code of conduct to be enforced by the inspector general."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 3123"
citation: "California AB 3123 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority", "board code of conduct", "lobbying rules"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones-Sawyer"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2aaea5b-0114-402b-b0d4-82be549900eb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3123"
source_hash: "4ef991d354b7a078a290fd2176f833f9171485a6d05b8f38a5ee273cc5821ab8"
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 3123 (20232024) — Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: board code of conduct: lobbying rules.

Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) , governed by a 14-member board, with specified powers and duties relative to transportation planning, programming, and operations in the County of Los Angeles. Existing law prescribes a code of conduct for the board of MTA, which includes, among other things, rules pertaining to gifts and financial conflicts of interest. As part of the provisions establishing this code of conduct, existing law requires the board of MTA to appoint an ethics officer who reports to the board. Existing law also requires MTA to appoint an inspector general and requires the code of conduct to be enforced by the inspector general.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3123&version=20230AB312399INT)
2. **03/21/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3123&version=20230AB312398AMD)
3. **04/25/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3123&version=20230AB312397AMD)
4. **08/21/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3123&version=20230AB312396AMD)
5. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3123&version=20230AB312394CHP)
6. **AB3123** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3123)
7. **09/04/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3123&version=20230AB312395ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **11–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Elections and Constitutional Amendments] — **12–3** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB3123 Jones-Sawyer By Durazo — **26–11** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 3123 Jones-Sawyer Assembly Third Reading — **57–10** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Elections] — **11–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 3123 Jones-Sawyer Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **50–14** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2024-03-21** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and ELECTIONS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 24). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-25** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-29** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 10. Page 5320.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and E. & C.A. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E. & C.A. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-21** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 11.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2024-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 50. Noes 14.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 755, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2aaea5b-0114-402b-b0d4-82be549900eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).