---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business."
description: "Until January 1, 2010, existing law provides that a licensee in ordinary course of business, as defined, takes its rights under a nonexclusive license free of a security interest in the intangible created by the licensor and takes its leasehold interest free of a security interest in the goods created by the lessor, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 224"
citation: "California AB 224 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Portantino"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2009-02-04"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1d23b3e-5a56-41cd-80d8-e5d7fd606b09"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB224"
source_hash: "8c460623dea049d24260b3a8f0945e96daad93186121c6c2e3bef61c51fa7bb0"
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 224 (20092010) — Business.

Until January 1, 2010, existing law provides that a licensee in ordinary course of business, as defined, takes its rights under a nonexclusive license free of a security interest in the intangible created by the licensor and takes its leasehold interest free of a security interest in the goods created by the lessor, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/04/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB224&version=20090AB22499INT)
2. **03/25/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB224&version=20090AB22498AMD)
3. **04/14/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB224&version=20090AB22497AMD)
4. **06/02/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB224&version=20090AB22496AMD)
5. **08/17/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB224&version=20090AB22495AMD)
6. **08/25/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB224&version=20090AB22494AMD)
7. **09/01/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB224&version=20090AB22493AMD)
8. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB224&version=20090AB22491CHP)
9. **AB224** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB224)
10. **09/21/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB224&version=20090AB22492ENR)

## Votes

- AB 224 PORTANTINO Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #19 AB224 Portantino By Simitian — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 224 PORTANTINO Concurrence- Urgency Added — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendments be concurred in. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Portantino — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-05** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
- **2009-03-04** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 17). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-03-25** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-03-26** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-14** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-04-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-04-20** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 982.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-04-30** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-06-03** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-08-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-08-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-08-26** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-08-27** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
- **2009-08-27** (Page 1960.)
- **2009-08-31** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 27). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-02** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-09-04** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2224.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-09-09** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2009-09-09** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 3230.)
- **2009-09-10** From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (September 10). `committee-passage`
- **2009-09-11** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3356.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 315, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1d23b3e-5a56-41cd-80d8-e5d7fd606b09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).