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+type: "Bill"
+title: "County recorders: veterans: recorded documents."
+description: "Existing law directs the county recorder, if any military veteran or a family member or legal representative of the veteran authorized by law to receive a certified copy of specified documents requests the recordation of any military discharge document, including a veteran's service form DD214, to sign a form that acknowledges that the document becomes part of the official record of the county."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 331"
+citation: "California AB 331 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["County recorders: veterans: recorded documents."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eggman"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2017-02-07"
+last_action: "2017-10-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5a08474-3ceb-4814-b7ea-3c148da45f8c"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB331"
+source_hash: "8f2e179e849d13f943038e1dfcf10cdafaec524078e53e977ff9c2d556ca9643"
+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 331 (20172018) — County recorders: veterans: recorded documents.
+
+Existing law directs the county recorder, if any military veteran or a family member or legal representative of the veteran authorized by law to receive a certified copy of specified documents requests the recordation of any military discharge document, including a veteran's service form DD214, to sign a form that acknowledges that the document becomes part of the official record of the county.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/07/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB331&version=20170AB33199INT)
+2. **03/21/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB331&version=20170AB33198AMD)
+3. **05/22/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB331&version=20170AB33197AMD)
+4. **06/19/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB331&version=20170AB33196AMD)
+5. **09/08/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB331&version=20170AB33195AMD)
+6. **10/02/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB331&version=20170AB33193CHP)
+7. **AB331** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB331)
+8. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB331&version=20170AB33194ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 331 EGGMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **67–4** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB331 Eggman et al. By Roth — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 331 EGGMAN Assembly Third Reading By GLORIA — **68–3** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eggman — primary (person)
+- Gloria — author (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-08** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
+- **2017-03-20** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-03-22** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-05-23** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (May 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 3. Page 1888.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2017-06-14** Referred to Coms. on V.A. and JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on V.A. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
+- **2017-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2017-07-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2017-08-21** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2017-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-09-08** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2017-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2774.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-09-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2017-09-13** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
+- **2017-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 4. Page 3373.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2017-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
+- **2017-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2017-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 399, Statutes of 2017.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5a08474-3ceb-4814-b7ea-3c148da45f8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+