Legislation: batch E — CA TN VA VT WA WI WV WY

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-844.md

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Search warrants: foreign corporations and foreign limited liability companies."
+description: "Existing law prohibits a foreign corporation from transacting intrastate business without a certificate of qualification from the Secretary of State, and requires a statement filed for a certificate of qualification to include, among other things, an agent for service of process within the state. Existing law prohibits a foreign limited liability company transacting intrastate business in this state from maintaining an action or proceeding in this state unless it has a certificate of registration filed with the Secretary of State, and requires an application for a certificate of registration to include, among other things, an agent for service of process."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 844"
+citation: "California AB 844 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Search warrants: foreign corporations and foreign limited liability companies."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bloom"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2015-02-26"
+last_action: "2015-07-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0c7b8b3-53b5-4b36-aeb0-1fa547232e28"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB844"
+source_hash: "2f1cacc205c547a41a0274edcfc8bfd9c0b15073c08bb5954978ae2a8788c858"
+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 844 (20152016) — Search warrants: foreign corporations and foreign limited liability companies.
+
+Existing law prohibits a foreign corporation from transacting intrastate business without a certificate of qualification from the Secretary of State, and requires a statement filed for a certificate of qualification to include, among other things, an agent for service of process within the state. Existing law prohibits a foreign limited liability company transacting intrastate business in this state from maintaining an action or proceeding in this state unless it has a certificate of registration filed with the Secretary of State, and requires an application for a certificate of registration to include, among other things, an agent for service of process.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB844&version=20150AB84499INT)
+2. **07/06/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB844&version=20150AB84497CHP)
+3. **AB844** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB844)
+4. **06/24/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB844&version=20150AB84498ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Banking and Finance] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 844 BLOOM Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- Special Consent #3 AB844 Bloom By Hertzberg — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bloom — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
+- **2015-03-16** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and B. & F. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-05-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1341.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2015-05-21** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-06-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-06-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-06-17** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2015-06-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1550.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-06-23** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2015-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
+- **2015-07-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-07-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 57, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0c7b8b3-53b5-4b36-aeb0-1fa547232e28`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+