CA AB 2134

passed one chamber

City council members: absences without permission.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law provides that if a city council member is absent without permission from all regular city council meetings for a specified number of days from the last regular meeting they attended, their office becomes vacant and shall be filled as any other vacancy. This bill would require a city to establish a process for a city council member to notify the city clerk or other designated official in writing that they are taking parental leave, as defined, for 12 workweeks or longer if the city council member's city provides a parental leave period longer than 12 workweeks for their employees. The bill would exclude parental leave from counting toward the number of allowed absences allotted to each council member. The bill would prohibit the process from requiring a council member to make the declaration at a public hearing. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Introduced: 2026-03-16
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-07-02 — In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2026-02-18
Read first time. To print.
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2026-02-19
From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2026-03-16
Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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2026-03-16
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.
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2026-03-17
Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
referral-committee
2026-04-30
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 29).
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2026-05-04
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2026-05-05
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-05-11
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5001.)
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2026-05-12
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-05-20
Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and JUD.
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2026-06-04
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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2026-06-10
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-06-24
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 23).
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2026-06-25
Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2026-07-02
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.).
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2026-07-02
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

Versions

02/18/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-18Compare
03/16/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-16Compare
05/04/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-05-04Compare
06/04/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-04Compare
06/25/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-25Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass as amended.
2026-04-29 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (10)
- Wilson: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ward: yes
AB 2134 Addis Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-11 · pass · 72-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Jackson: yes
- Lee: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Haney: yes
- Flora: yes
- Berman: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Davies: yes
- Mark González: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ta: yes
- Hart: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Patel: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Fong: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Chen: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Addis: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ward: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Solache: other
- Lowenthal: other
- Gallagher: other
- Michelle Rodriguez: other
- Soria: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Quirk-Silva: other
- Arambula: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2026-06-10 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Laird: yes
- Choi: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Ashby: yes
Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar
2026-06-23 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Ashby: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Stern: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Laird: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Allen: yes
- Niello: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd AB2134 Addis et al.
2026-07-02 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Durazo: yes
- Grove: yes
- Jones: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Limón: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Niello: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Allen: yes
- Becker: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Choi: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Laird: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Wahab: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Stern: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: other
- Rubio: other
- Richardson: other

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