---
type: "Bill"
title: "Communications equipment insurance agent license."
description: "Communications equipment insurance agent license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2856"
citation: "California AB 2856 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Communications equipment insurance agent license."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chavez"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2002-02-25"
last_action: "2002-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0afd525d-1091-4aef-9508-1db014c682f8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2856"
source_hash: "d367f3e45db17cacf68966d94281ceaa43a3a01b28ae96ffd8deb44a62117b53"
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 2856 (20012002) — Communications equipment insurance agent license.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2856&version=20010AB285699INT)
2. **05/13/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2856&version=20010AB285698AMD)
3. **06/10/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2856&version=20010AB285697AMD)
4. **06/13/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2856&version=20010AB285696AMD)
5. **06/26/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2856&version=20010AB285695AMD)
6. **08/08/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2856&version=20010AB285694AMD)
7. **09/09/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2856&version=20010AB285692CHP)
8. **AB2856** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2856)
9. **08/19/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2856&version=20010AB285693ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2856 Chavez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2856 Chavez By Scott — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2856 Chavez Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2856 Chavez Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chavez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 437, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-08-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2002-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 71. Noes 5. Page 7731.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2002-08-14** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5418.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-08-07** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-26** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-14** (Corrected June 13. )
- **2002-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-05-30** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-23** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 6286.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-16** From Consent Calendar. To third reading.
- **2002-05-14** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-05-13** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-05-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (May 8). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-24** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-04-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-03-11** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2002-02-25** Joint Rule 54 (a) suspended. Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. 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/0afd525d-1091-4aef-9508-1db014c682f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).