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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Lawful money."
+description: "Existing law prohibits a corporation, flexible purpose corporation, association, or individual from issuing or putting in circulation, as money, anything but the lawful money of the United States."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20132014"
+identifier: "AB 129"
+citation: "California AB 129 (20132014)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Lawful money."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dickinson"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2013-01-15"
+last_action: "2014-06-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c9aea57-f5d0-4725-a18d-7352d8e13d62"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB129"
+source_hash: "b8f27b0afe54f8a98acd66cb71fce404913164e52c874006c79a631b780377e9"
+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 129 (20132014) — Lawful money.
+
+Existing law prohibits a corporation, flexible purpose corporation, association, or individual from issuing or putting in circulation, as money, anything but the lawful money of the United States.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/15/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB129&version=20130AB12999INT)
+2. **01/07/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB129&version=20130AB12997AMD)
+3. **01/23/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB129&version=20130AB12996AMD)
+4. **03/19/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB129&version=20130AB12998AMD)
+5. **05/22/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB129&version=20130AB12995AMD)
+6. **06/28/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB129&version=20130AB12993CHP)
+7. **AB129** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB129)
+8. **06/24/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB129&version=20130AB12994ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. — **7–1** (pass) · upper
+- Be referred to Committee on Banking and Finance. — **7–4** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB129 Dickinson By Hill — **28–3** (pass) · upper
+- AB 129 DICKINSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **52–11** (pass) · lower
+- AB 129 DICKINSON Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dickinson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2013-01-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2013-01-16** From printer. May be heard in committee February 15.
+- **2013-03-19** Referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee`
+- **2013-03-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2013-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee`
+- **2013-04-22** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2013-04-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2014-01-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2014-01-08** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee`
+- **2014-01-09** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
+- **2014-01-09** (Ayes 50. Noes 22. Page 3534.)
+- **2014-01-09** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on B. & F. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (January 9). Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2014-01-22** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2014-01-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2014-01-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2014-01-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3718.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2014-01-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2014-02-06** Referred to Com. on B. & F.I. `referral-committee`
+- **2014-05-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2014-06-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2014-06-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2014-06-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 3. Page 4020.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2014-06-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2014-06-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 11. Page 5646.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2014-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
+- **2014-06-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2014-06-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 74, Statutes of 2014.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c9aea57-f5d0-4725-a18d-7352d8e13d62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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