---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business entities: filings."
description: "(1) The General Corporation Law, the Social Purpose Corporations Act, and the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, authorize the Secretary of State, upon payment of a fee by the applicant, to issue a certificate of reservation of any name, not otherwise prohibited."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1471"
citation: "California AB 1471 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business entities: filings."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Perea"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-27"
last_action: "2015-08-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86e4c737-c304-4895-acd5-13692a92fc0c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1471"
source_hash: "be5e8c20f99a2dca231ee5f9e26a95da24de0642f90b88c47a7b265ac90bb5b1"
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 1471 (20152016) — Business entities: filings.

(1) The General Corporation Law, the Social Purpose Corporations Act, and the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, authorize the Secretary of State, upon payment of a fee by the applicant, to issue a certificate of reservation of any name, not otherwise prohibited.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1471&version=20150AB147199INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1471&version=20150AB147198AMD)
3. **04/14/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1471&version=20150AB147197AMD)
4. **06/25/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1471&version=20150AB147196AMD)
5. **08/12/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1471&version=20150AB147194CHP)
6. **AB1471** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1471)
7. **07/21/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1471&version=20150AB147195ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1471 PEREA Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1471 PEREA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Perea — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2015-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-28** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-29** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1263.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1754.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-02** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-07-16** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2406.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2015-08-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 189, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86e4c737-c304-4895-acd5-13692a92fc0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).