---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Financing Law: remote work."
description: "Existing law, the California Financing Law (CFL) , prohibits a finance lender, broker, mortgage loan originator, or program administrator licensee from transacting the business licensed or making a loan or administering a PACE program provided for by the CFL under another name or at another place of business than that named in the license except pursuant to a currently effective written order of the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation authorizing the other name or other place of business."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2001"
citation: "California AB 2001 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Financing Law: remote work."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grayson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-02-14"
last_action: "2022-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28ffb85f-ad31-4ab2-ae3b-0343ddfbddbf"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2001"
source_hash: "cc9fdca72e07bf7eb3feb1e48c85697165d87c31b1078691eae807e1be4e63f1"
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 2001 (20212022) — California Financing Law: remote work.

Existing law, the California Financing Law (CFL) , prohibits a finance lender, broker, mortgage loan originator, or program administrator licensee from transacting the business licensed or making a loan or administering a PACE program provided for by the CFL under another name or at another place of business than that named in the license except pursuant to a currently effective written order of the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation authorizing the other name or other place of business.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2001&version=20210AB200199INT)
2. **04/21/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2001&version=20210AB200198AMD)
3. **06/09/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2001&version=20210AB200197AMD)
4. **08/26/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2001&version=20210AB200195CHP)
5. **AB2001** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2001)
6. **08/12/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2001&version=20210AB200196ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2001 Grayson Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2001 Grayson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2001 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Grayson — primary (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2022-02-24** Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 19). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5010.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-08** Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-09** 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, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-08-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4680.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5811.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-08-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-08-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 181, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28ffb85f-ad31-4ab2-ae3b-0343ddfbddbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).