CA SB 702
enactedLegislative and gubernatorial appointments: report.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did CA SB 702 pass?
Yes. CA SB 702 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-06. Latest recorded action (2025-10-06): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 423, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA SB 702 about?
Existing law establishes various boards and commissions in state government with specified duties and responsibilities. Existing law generally provides for legislative oversight of state board formation, which includes, among other things, any administrative or regulatory board, commission, and committee, whose members are appointed by the Governor, the Legislature, or both. Existing law requires the Governor to appoint every officer whose mode of appointment is not prescribed by law. This bill would require the office of the Governor, commencing January 1, 2027, to maintain on its internet website a list of each state board and commission and the membership list, stated purpose, duties, meeting frequency, internet website, and vacancies in the membership for each board or commission. The bill would require the office of the Governor, on or before January 31, 2028, and annually on January 31 thereafter, to create and publish on its internet website a report containing aggregate demographic information, as defined, of appointments made by the office during the prior calendar year, as specified. The bill would require the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, commencing January 1, 2027, to maintain on their respective internet websites, or to include a link on their respective internet websites to any available resources that contain, a list of each state board or commission that each house has appointment authority over and the membership list, stated purpose, duties, meeting frequency, internet website, and any vacancies in the membership for that board or commission. The bill would also require the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, on or before January 31, 2028, and annually on January 31 thereafter, to publish on their respective internet websites, to the extent available, aggregate demographic information, as defined, on their respective legislative appointments, made during the prior calendar year, as specified. The bill would require the aggregate demographic information to only include legislative appointments created by statute, and prohibit the information from including ex officio appointments of members of the Senate and the Assembly. The bill would require the above-described published aggregate demographic information on gubernatorial or legislative appointments to, among other things, be published on the respective entity's internet websites in a prescribed manner for purposes of ensuring the anonymity of the appointed individuals.
Who sponsors CA SB 702?
Limón is the primary sponsor of CA SB 702, joined by 14 cosponsors.
Description
Existing law establishes various boards and commissions in state government with specified duties and responsibilities. Existing law generally provides for legislative oversight of state board formation, which includes, among other things, any administrative or regulatory board, commission, and committee, whose members are appointed by the Governor, the Legislature, or both. Existing law requires the Governor to appoint every officer whose mode of appointment is not prescribed by law. This bill would require the office of the Governor, commencing January 1, 2027, to maintain on its internet website a list of each state board and commission and the membership list, stated purpose, duties, meeting frequency, internet website, and vacancies in the membership for each board or commission. The bill would require the office of the Governor, on or before January 31, 2028, and annually on January 31 thereafter, to create and publish on its internet website a report containing aggregate demographic information, as defined, of appointments made by the office during the prior calendar year, as specified. The bill would require the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, commencing January 1, 2027, to maintain on their respective internet websites, or to include a link on their respective internet websites to any available resources that contain, a list of each state board or commission that each house has appointment authority over and the membership list, stated purpose, duties, meeting frequency, internet website, and any vacancies in the membership for that board or commission. The bill would also require the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, on or before January 31, 2028, and annually on January 31 thereafter, to publish on their respective internet websites, to the extent available, aggregate demographic information, as defined, on their respective legislative appointments, made during the prior calendar year, as specified. The bill would require the aggregate demographic information to only include legislative appointments created by statute, and prohibit the information from including ex officio appointments of members of the Senate and the Assembly. The bill would require the above-described published aggregate demographic information on gubernatorial or legislative appointments to, among other things, be published on the respective entity's internet websites in a prescribed manner for purposes of ensuring the anonymity of the appointed individuals.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-21
- Latest action
- 2025-10-06 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 423, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Limónauthor
- Cervantesauthor
- Rubioprincipal coauthor
- Archuletacoauthor
- Gonzalezcoauthor
- Wardcoauthor
- Alvarezcoauthor
- Carrillocoauthor
- Daviescoauthor
- Fongcoauthor
- Gipsoncoauthor
- Pachecocoauthor
- Blanca Rubiocoauthor
- Solachecoauthor
- Soriacoauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-21
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-24
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
2025-02-24
Read first time.
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2025-03-12
Referred to Coms. on G.O. and JUD.
referral-committee
2025-03-17
Set for hearing March 25.
2025-03-25
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 531.) (March 25).
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2025-03-26
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-04-03
Set for hearing April 22.
2025-04-08
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-04-23
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 837.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-25
Set for hearing May 5.
2025-05-05
May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1210.) (May 23).
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2025-06-02
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1405.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-06-03
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-09
Referred to Coms. on G.O. and JUD.
referral-committee
2025-06-26
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 22. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-06-26
Coauthors revised.
2025-07-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-07-16
July 16 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29).
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2025-09-02
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-09-03
Read third time and amended.
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2025-09-03
Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-03
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-09
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3090.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2025-09-09
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-09-10
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2798.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2025-09-22
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
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2025-10-06
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-06
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 423, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
Versions
- 02/21/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-21Compare
- 03/26/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-26Compare
- 04/08/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-04-08Compare
- 09/02/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-02Compare
- 09/03/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-03Compare
- 09/13/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-13Compare
- 10/06/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-06Compare
- SB702Compare
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Votes
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2025-03-25 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Richardson: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Jones: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Dahle: other
- Smallwood-Cuevas: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-22 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Allen: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Laird: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Stern: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Niello: yes
- Wiener: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-05-05 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wahab: yes
Do pass
2025-05-23 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: other
3rd Reading SB702 Limón et al.
2025-06-02 · pass · 38-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Menjivar: yes
- Niello: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Choi: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Durazo: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Allen: yes
- Limón: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Grove: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Stern: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: other
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2025-06-25 · pass · 22-0
Member-level votes (22)
- Ramos: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Berman: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Solache: yes
- Fong: yes
- Davies: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ta: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Soria: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Alvarez: yes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-01 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (12)
- Connolly: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Papan: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
Do pass as amended.
2025-08-29 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Elhawary: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Solache: yes
- Sanchez: other
- Ta: other
- Tangipa: other
- Dixon: other
SB 702 Limón Senate Third Reading By Blanca Rubio
2025-09-09 · pass · 79-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Addis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Berman: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Soria: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Davies: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Chen: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Bains: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Lee: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ta: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Ward: yes
- Fong: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Flora: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hadwick: other
Unfinished Business SB702 Limón et al. Concurrence
2025-09-10 · pass · 40-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Umberg: yes
- Grove: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Niello: yes
- Jones: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Limón: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Choi: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Laird: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Rubio: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
- Caballero: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Becker: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
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