---
type: "Bill"
title: "Service stations."
description: "Service stations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 531"
citation: "California AB 531 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Service stations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Soto"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1999-02-18"
last_action: "1999-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d2ffcfd-40b0-407e-80b8-ac1be17ec1f5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB531"
source_hash: "de59b539d1d3d9199fba114bd85a0b4dd273f028bd91d6e9df672675269e04ba"
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 531 (19992000) — Service stations.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB531&version=19990AB53199INT)
2. **07/15/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB531&version=19990AB53198AMD)
3. **08/16/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB531&version=19990AB53197AMD)
4. **08/31/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB531&version=19990AB53196AMD)
5. **09/09/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB531&version=19990AB53195AMD)
6. **09/30/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB531&version=19990AB53193CHP)
7. **AB531** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB531)
8. **09/09/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB531&version=19990AB53194ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB531 Soto Polanco — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 531 SOTO THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 531 SOTO CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 531 SOTO CONCURRENCE MOVE PREVIOUS QUESTION — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB531 Soto Amend By Haynes Lay on Table — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Soto — primary (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 583, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-22** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **1999-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 41. Noes 35. Page 4312.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **1999-09-09** Read third time. Amended. Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 19. Page 3137.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-09-03** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 5.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-08-31** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-08-30** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 5. Noes 2.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-08-17** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended.
- **1999-08-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-07-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-07-12** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-06-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-06-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 43. Noes 33. Page 2466.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-06-02** From inactive file. To third reading.
- **1999-06-01** Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Soto.
- **1999-05-17** To inactive file on motion of Assembly Member Soto.
- **1999-04-22** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (April 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-03-04** Referred to Com. on C.P.,G.E. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **1999-02-18** 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/2d2ffcfd-40b0-407e-80b8-ac1be17ec1f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).