---
type: "Bill"
title: "Money transmission."
description: "Existing law provides for the regulation and licensure by the Commissioner of Financial Institutions of money transmitters, issuers of travelers checks, and sellers of payment instruments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2789"
citation: "California AB 2789 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Money transmission."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Banking and Finance"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-03-09"
last_action: "2010-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77e3429d-6fda-4f0c-9f9d-e533128a509c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2789"
source_hash: "278ae17cb23b38a64b17cf056fcb7d2dedca32be347dfcd5b1b73c32b3231774"
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 2789 (20092010) — Money transmission.

Existing law provides for the regulation and licensure by the Commissioner of Financial Institutions of money transmitters, issuers of travelers checks, and sellers of payment instruments.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/09/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2789&version=20090AB278999INT)
2. **04/12/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2789&version=20090AB278998AMD)
3. **06/10/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2789&version=20090AB278997AMD)
4. **07/15/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2789&version=20090AB278996AMD)
5. **09/30/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2789&version=20090AB278994CHP)
6. **AB2789** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2789)
7. **08/30/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2789&version=20090AB278995ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2789 B.& F. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By ENG — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2789 Committee on B. & F. (Eng) By Calderon — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2789 B.& F. Assembly Third Reading By ENG — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Banking and Finance — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-03-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-03-10** From printer. May be heard in committee April 9.
- **2010-03-25** Referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-13** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-20** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 5. Page 5030.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-20** Referred to Com. on B., F. & I. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., F. & I. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-07-15** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 30). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-07-15** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-07-15** (Corrected July 15.)
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-18** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 1. Page 4584.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-19** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6373.)
- **2010-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 71. Noes 4. Page 6422.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-09-02** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2010-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 612, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77e3429d-6fda-4f0c-9f9d-e533128a509c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).