---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business entities: Secretary of State: document filings."
description: "Existing law provides that every person who willfully obtains personal identifying information, as defined, of another person, and uses that information for any unlawful purpose, is guilty of a public offense."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 1168"
citation: "California SB 1168 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business entities", "Secretary of State", "document filings"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Limón"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-14"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64fdb416-7852-4340-8965-1787069782aa"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1168"
source_hash: "e07d0993f3867d98f65325f61ef2afcf3302b28ffafc860aba8ba58b644a2acd"
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 SB 1168 (20232024) — Business entities: Secretary of State: document filings.

Existing law provides that every person who willfully obtains personal identifying information, as defined, of another person, and uses that information for any unlawful purpose, is guilty of a public offense.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1168&version=20230SB116899INT)
2. **03/21/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1168&version=20230SB116898AMD)
3. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1168&version=20230SB116896CHP)
4. **SB1168** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1168)
5. **08/16/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1168&version=20230SB116897ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Banking and Financial Institutions] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1168 Limón Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Limón — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
- **2024-02-21** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and B. & F.I. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26** Set for hearing April 9.
- **2024-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & F.I. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3531.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2024-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-26** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2024-05-06** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3873.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2024-06-03** Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-07** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6320.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-15** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2024-08-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 783, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64fdb416-7852-4340-8965-1787069782aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).