republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2159.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Common interest developments: association governance: elections."
description: "(1) Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, governs the formation and operation of common interest developments. Existing law requires common interest developments to be managed by an association. Existing law requires elections regarding specified matters concerning the governance of common interest developments to be held by secret ballot in accordance with certain procedures. Existing law requires an association to adopt certain operating rules that govern elections. Existing law requires an association to select an independent third party as the inspector or inspectors of elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2159"
citation: "California AB 2159 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Common interest developments", "association governance", "elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-06"
last_action: "2024-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06c76a54-0b0c-4170-9619-0725eb3dbef2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2159"
source_hash: "e8d17068ca3caad56526646ecafdfc5d817cfff27b35d100ad095cb7026674a6"
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 2159 (20232024) — Common interest developments: association governance: elections.

(1) Existing law, the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, governs the formation and operation of common interest developments. Existing law requires common interest developments to be managed by an association. Existing law requires elections regarding specified matters concerning the governance of common interest developments to be held by secret ballot in accordance with certain procedures. Existing law requires an association to adopt certain operating rules that govern elections. Existing law requires an association to select an independent third party as the inspector or inspectors of elections.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/06/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2159&version=20230AB215999INT)
2. **04/01/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2159&version=20230AB215998AMD)
3. **04/15/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2159&version=20230AB215997AMD)
4. **05/02/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2159&version=20230AB215996AMD)
5. **06/10/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2159&version=20230AB215995AMD)
6. **08/05/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2159&version=20230AB215994AMD)
7. **08/23/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2159&version=20230AB215993AMD)
8. **09/22/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2159&version=20230AB215991CHP)
9. **AB2159** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2159)
10. **09/04/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2159&version=20230AB215992ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB2159 Maienschein By Bradford — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2159 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2159 Maienschein Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **10–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maienschein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-07** From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
- **2024-02-26** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 10). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 30). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-05-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5306.) `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 HOUSING and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (July 2). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-08-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). `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 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 383, 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/06c76a54-0b0c-4170-9619-0725eb3dbef2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).