CA AB 655
enactedCalifornia-Mexico Border Relations Council.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 655 pass?
Yes. CA AB 655 has been enacted into law as of 2025-07-14. Latest recorded action (2025-07-14): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 41, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 655 about?
Existing law establishes the California-Mexico Border Relations Council in state government, and prescribes the membership and functions and duties of the council with respect to coordinating the activities of state agencies that are related to cross-border programs, initiatives, projects, and partnerships that exist within state agencies, to improve the effectiveness of state and local efforts that are of concern between California and Mexico. This bill would authorize the Speaker of the Assembly to appoint a Member of the Assembly and the President pro Tempore to appoint a Member of the Senate who each represent a district that shares a border with Mexico to the council to serve as an ex officio, nonvoting member, as specified.
Who sponsors CA AB 655?
Alvarez is the primary sponsor of CA AB 655.
Description
Existing law establishes the California-Mexico Border Relations Council in state government, and prescribes the membership and functions and duties of the council with respect to coordinating the activities of state agencies that are related to cross-border programs, initiatives, projects, and partnerships that exist within state agencies, to improve the effectiveness of state and local efforts that are of concern between California and Mexico. This bill would authorize the Speaker of the Assembly to appoint a Member of the Assembly and the President pro Tempore to appoint a Member of the Senate who each represent a district that shares a border with Mexico to the council to serve as an ex officio, nonvoting member, as specified.
- Introduced
- 2025-04-10
- Latest action
- 2025-07-14 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 41, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Alvarezauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-13
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-14
From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
2025-03-17
Referred to Com. on E.D., G., & H.I.
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2025-04-10
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.D., G., & H.I. Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-21
Re-referred to Com. on E.D., G., & H.I.
referral-committee
2025-04-22
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-07
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 7).
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2025-05-08
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-05-15
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1569.)
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2025-05-15
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-28
Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
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2025-06-09
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-06-23
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-06-24
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-06-27
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1809.).
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2025-06-27
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
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2025-07-03
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
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2025-07-14
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-07-14
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 41, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-22 · pass · 8-0
Member-level votes (8)
- Solache: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Soria: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Patel: yes
- Bonta: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-05-07 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Solache: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Fong: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ta: yes
- Hart: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Dixon: yes
AB 655 Alvarez Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-05-15 · pass · 69-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Alvarez: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Bains: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Chen: yes
- Flora: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ta: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Addis: yes
- Krell: yes
- Solache: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Soria: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Papan: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ward: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Berman: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Davies: yes
- Haney: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Lee: yes
- Quirk-Silva: other
- Alanis: other
- Stefani: other
- Bennett: other
- Hart: other
- Arambula: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Caloza: other
- Castillo: other
- Ramos: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-09 · pass · 8-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Grayson: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Niello: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Choi: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Weber Pierson: other
- Menjivar: other
- Smallwood-Cuevas: other
Consent Calendar 2nd
2025-06-27 · pass · 38-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Ashby: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Laird: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Grove: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Limón: yes
- Choi: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Niello: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Becker: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Allen: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Stern: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: other
- Reyes: other
Related bills
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