---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business licensing: fees: exemptions: veterans."
description: "Existing law provides that every person who is honorably discharged or honorably relieved from the military, naval, or air service of the United States and is a resident of this state is entitled to obtain a license to distribute circulars and sell any goods, except alcohol, without payment of any state or local business license fees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 498"
citation: "California AB 498 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business licensing: fees: exemptions: veterans."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weber"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85e03267-9758-4514-a3bf-275db1244d4e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB498"
source_hash: "4e979cf83b8837dded2773b03e8e30f8547d9ab042ae3d8856e07e309a3f0459"
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 498 (20192020) — Business licensing: fees: exemptions: veterans.

Existing law provides that every person who is honorably discharged or honorably relieved from the military, naval, or air service of the United States and is a resident of this state is entitled to obtain a license to distribute circulars and sell any goods, except alcohol, without payment of any state or local business license fees.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB498&version=20190AB49899INT)
2. **04/01/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB498&version=20190AB49898AMD)
3. **06/10/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB498&version=20190AB49897AMD)
4. **09/05/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB498&version=20190AB49895CHP)
5. **AB498** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB498)
6. **08/23/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB498&version=20190AB49896ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent AB498 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 498 Weber Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 498 Weber Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Veterans Affairs] — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Veterans Affairs] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Weber — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2019-02-25** Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on V.A. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on V.A. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on V.A. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1474.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on V.A. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on V.A. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-03** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2019-07-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2057.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2789.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-09-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 227, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85e03267-9758-4514-a3bf-275db1244d4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).