---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business filings: fictitious business names."
description: "Existing law requires a person who regularly transacts business in the state for profit under a fictitious business name to file a fictitious business name statement in accordance with prescribed requirements within 40 days of commencing to transact business. Under existing law, a fictitious business name statement expires 5 years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk or 40 days after any change in specified facts included on that statement, except that a change in the residence address of an individual, general partner, or trustee does not cause the statement to expire."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 878"
citation: "California AB 878 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business filings", "fictitious business names"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pellerin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1d51a94-ef3a-43b4-8abd-5a3646006841"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB878"
source_hash: "76c684f91370251e08be73d4beab77bb37c9cece042dfe12c61bc81fa081b30a"
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 878 (20232024) — Business filings: fictitious business names.

Existing law requires a person who regularly transacts business in the state for profit under a fictitious business name to file a fictitious business name statement in accordance with prescribed requirements within 40 days of commencing to transact business. Under existing law, a fictitious business name statement expires 5 years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk or 40 days after any change in specified facts included on that statement, except that a change in the residence address of an individual, general partner, or trustee does not cause the statement to expire.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB878&version=20230AB87899INT)
2. **06/29/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB878&version=20230AB87897CHP)
3. **AB878** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB878)
4. **06/09/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB878&version=20230AB87898ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 878 Pellerin Consent Calendar Second Day — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pellerin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (March 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 1079.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-04-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1490.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-08** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2023-06-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 20, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1d51a94-ef3a-43b4-8abd-5a3646006841`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).