---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foreign trade and investment."
description: "Existing law authorizes a public corporation, as defined, or any private corporation, to apply for the privilege of establishing, operating, and maintaining a foreign-trade zone in accordance with federal law and to exercise specified powers related thereto, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1727"
citation: "California AB 1727 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Foreign trade and investment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-21"
last_action: "2017-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6b2363e-ad28-41e6-94b8-3540270afe5c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1727"
source_hash: "df6ceb16aa1f1bc304020e53709c2f035d1ad7af915a7e8145b624f01277e391"
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 1727 (20172018) — Foreign trade and investment.

Existing law authorizes a public corporation, as defined, or any private corporation, to apply for the privilege of establishing, operating, and maintaining a foreign-trade zone in accordance with federal law and to exercise specified powers related thereto, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/21/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1727&version=20170AB172799INT)
2. **06/26/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1727&version=20170AB172797CHP)
3. **AB1727** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1727)
4. **06/08/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1727&version=20170AB172798ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1727 J.,E.D.,& E. (Quirk-Silva) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-03-22** From printer. May be heard in committee April 21.
- **2017-04-24** Referred to Com. on J., E.D., & E. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-24** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1173.)
- **2017-04-25** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-26** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1310.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-06-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1464.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-08** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2017-06-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 13, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6b2363e-ad28-41e6-94b8-3540270afe5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).