---
type: "Bill"
title: "The Promote Ownership by Workers for Economic Recovery Act."
description: "Existing law, the Cooperative Corporation Law, authorizes the formation of a corporation for any lawful purpose that is organized and conducts its business primarily for the mutual benefit of its members as patrons of the corporation. Existing law authorizes a corporation organized under those provisions to elect to be governed as a worker cooperative, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2849"
citation: "California AB 2849 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["The Promote Ownership by Workers for Economic Recovery Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mia Bonta"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 31
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d16024ff-7173-494d-9c1b-59cd920c5f49"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2849"
source_hash: "93b506e294aa75c258c0fb5be1e887b4cea78d43d25b1fe269b9b44bb08cc460"
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 2849 (20212022) — The Promote Ownership by Workers for Economic Recovery Act.

Existing law, the Cooperative Corporation Law, authorizes the formation of a corporation for any lawful purpose that is organized and conducts its business primarily for the mutual benefit of its members as patrons of the corporation. Existing law authorizes a corporation organized under those provisions to elect to be governed as a worker cooperative, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2849&version=20210AB284999INT)
2. **03/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2849&version=20210AB284998AMD)
3. **05/19/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2849&version=20210AB284997AMD)
4. **08/11/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2849&version=20210AB284996AMD)
5. **08/17/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2849&version=20210AB284995AMD)
6. **09/29/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2849&version=20210AB284993CHP)
7. **AB2849** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2849)
8. **09/02/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2849&version=20210AB284994ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2849 Mia Bonta et al. By Becker — **31–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 2849 Mia Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **61–14** (pass) · lower
- AB 2849 Mia Bonta Assembly Third Reading — **56–15** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor and Employment] — **9–3** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mia Bonta — primary (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-18** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2022-03-24** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and B. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-28** Re-referred to Coms. on B. & F. and L. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-31** Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4108.)
- **2022-03-31** (pending re-refer to Com. on L. & E.)
- **2022-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 19). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 15. Page 5005.) `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 L., P.E. & R. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. 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. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-02** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-17** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2022-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 14.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 808, 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/d16024ff-7173-494d-9c1b-59cd920c5f49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).