---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business licenses and fees: employment relationship."
description: "Business licenses and fees: employment relationship."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 205"
citation: "California AB 205 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business licenses and fees: employment relationship."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Koretz"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2001-02-09"
last_action: "2001-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25e55421-0289-42cc-8083-22fdbf91a7eb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB205"
source_hash: "0a2a2f0e69df3c0e889c6669bc35fde532ecd72e6227fa078da4e2d1d76b45c0"
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 205 (20012002) — Business licenses and fees: employment relationship.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/09/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB205&version=20010AB20599INT)
2. **03/29/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB205&version=20010AB20598AMD)
3. **04/16/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB205&version=20010AB20597AMD)
4. **05/07/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB205&version=20010AB20596AMD)
5. **05/22/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB205&version=20010AB20595AMD)
6. **07/05/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB205&version=20010AB20593CHP)
7. **AB205** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB205)
8. **06/25/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB205&version=20010AB20594ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB205 Koretz By Torlakson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 205 Koretz Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 205 Koretz Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Koretz — primary (person)
- Aroner — coauthor (person)
- Cardenas — author (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Johannessen — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Negrete McLeod — coauthor (person)
- Richman — coauthor (person)
- Washington — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-07-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 36, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-07-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-06-27** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2001-06-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2493.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2001-05-30** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1267.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-22** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-01** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-04-19** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1116.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-04-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-04-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-04-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 4). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-04-04** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Local Government Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-02-22** Referred to Standing Committee on Local Government. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
- **2001-02-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25e55421-0289-42cc-8083-22fdbf91a7eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).