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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Settlement agreements: restraints in trade."
+description: "Existing law provides that every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is void to the extent that the contract restrains that person."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20192020"
+identifier: "AB 749"
+citation: "California AB 749 (20192020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Settlement agreements: restraints in trade."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mark Stone"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-02-19"
+last_action: "2019-10-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d03672ca-bd82-4ebd-9b32-e821dbbbc68d"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB749"
+source_hash: "37be5e34aac20205c99f9a318be11ea7600a35cfc0c2f79d933cb15bae7627cb"
+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 749 (20192020) — Settlement agreements: restraints in trade.
+
+Existing law provides that every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is void to the extent that the contract restrains that person.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/19/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB749&version=20190AB74999INT)
+2. **06/27/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB749&version=20190AB74998AMD)
+3. **08/15/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB749&version=20190AB74997AMD)
+4. **10/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB749&version=20190AB74995CHP)
+5. **AB749** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB749)
+6. **09/06/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB749&version=20190AB74996ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 749 Mark Stone Assembly Third Reading — **41–19** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB749 Mark Stone et al. By Durazo — **21–13** (pass) · upper
+- AB 749 Mark Stone Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **46–22** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended — **7–2** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **9–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mark Stone — primary (person)
+- Gonzalez — author (person)
+- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
+- Reyes — author (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
+- **2019-02-28** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-25** Coauthors revised.
+- **2019-04-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 41. Noes 19. Page 1481.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2019-06-12** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-06-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-08-15** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 13. Page 2462.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2019-09-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 46. Noes 22. Page 3031.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
+- **2019-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 808, Statutes of 2019.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d03672ca-bd82-4ebd-9b32-e821dbbbc68d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+