---
type: "Bill"
title: "Corporations."
description: "Corporations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1895"
citation: "California AB 1895 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corporations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ackerman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2000-02-10"
last_action: "2000-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55f25b26-0e00-4153-922a-9ec5663c169e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1895"
source_hash: "aae49183acc0df953ff09f305292d822613e27a426d73bbbad90d9e9182322c1"
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 1895 (19992000) — Corporations.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/10/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1895&version=19990AB189599INT)
2. **08/10/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1895&version=19990AB189598AMD)
3. **09/19/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1895&version=19990AB189596CHP)
4. **AB1895** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1895)
5. **08/22/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1895&version=19990AB189597ENR)

## Votes

- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB1895 Ackerman — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1895 ACKERMAN THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ackerman — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2000-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 485, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-05** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2000-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 8086.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2000-08-18** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5792.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-10** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-09** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2000-06-20** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2000-06-15** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Rules Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-05-23** Referred to F.,I. & I.T. and Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-04** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 6181.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-02-18** Referred to Standing Committee on Banking and Finance. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2000-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55f25b26-0e00-4153-922a-9ec5663c169e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).