---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business licenses and fees: employment relationship."
description: "Business licenses and fees: employment relationship."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 83"
citation: "California AB 83 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business licenses and fees: employment relationship."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cardenas"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1998-12-09"
last_action: "2000-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c4371a3-6f62-4006-a8fb-3f4f500aeafb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83"
source_hash: "96dc02ac612fbea30d6b9399658dc6590b06e5f6dd788226ec190396723ea408"
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 83 (19992000) — Business licenses and fees: employment relationship.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/09/98 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83&version=19990AB8399INT)
2. **05/17/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83&version=19990AB8398AMD)
3. **05/24/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83&version=19990AB8397AMD)
4. **05/25/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83&version=19990AB8392AMD)
5. **05/27/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83&version=19990AB8396AMD)
6. **06/30/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83&version=19990AB8395AMD)
7. **07/12/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83&version=19990AB8394AMD)
8. **08/07/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83&version=19990AB8391AMD)
9. **08/14/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83&version=19990AB8390AMD)
10. **08/16/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83&version=19990AB8393AMD)
11. **09/30/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83&version=19990AB8388CHP)
12. **AB83** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83)
13. **08/29/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB83&version=19990AB8389ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB83 Cardenas By Murray — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB83 Cardenas Murray — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 83 CARDENAS CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 83 CARDENAS THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Revenue and Taxation. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB83 Cardenas Murray Reconsider — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cardenas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1070, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2000-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 68. Noes 4. Page 8626.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2000-08-25** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5991.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-23** Read third time and passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 5911.) Motion to reconsider made by Senator Murray. Reconsideration granted. (Page 5911.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-07-06** Joint Rule 61 (b)(12) suspended.
- **2000-07-05** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2000-05-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-08-19** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **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 Revenue and Taxation. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-07-15** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-07-14** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended.
- **1999-07-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 2193.). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-07-08** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-15** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government and Standing Committee on Revenue and Taxation. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-06-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 7. Page 2213.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-27** Assembly Rule 69 (b) suspended. Read third time, amended, and ordered returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-05-24** Assembly Rule 69 (b) suspended. Read third time, amended, and ordered returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-05-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (May 12). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **1999-04-28** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-01-11** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **1999-01-04** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **1998-12-10** From printer. May be heard in committee January 9.
- **1998-12-09** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c4371a3-6f62-4006-a8fb-3f4f500aeafb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).