republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20012002/ab-2578.md

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Bill	Contracts: breach of confidentiality: proprietary information.	Contracts: breach of confidentiality: proprietary information.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20012002	AB 2578	California AB 2578 (20012002)	bill	Contracts: breach of confidentiality: proprietary information.	enacted	Shelley	8	22	6	2002-02-21	2002-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/9e3095c1-b1a6-4ce1-970f-7e4bcc6dd5da	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2578	a36e2459282ea26a4c8958d192f0dbff7cc505079c0438be8a5dd0aa31dad95a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2578 (20012002) — Contracts: breach of confidentiality: proprietary information.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/02 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/02 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/02/02 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/02 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/31/02 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/02 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2578 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/02 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2578 Corbett Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2578 Shelley — pass (pass) · lower
• Inactive File AB2578 Corbett Suspend Joint Rules — pass (pass) · upper
• Inactive File AB2578 Corbett By Dunn — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Shelley — primary (person)
• Dunn — coauthor (person)
• Matthews — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2002-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1097, Statutes of 2002.
• 2002-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2002-09-17 Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2002-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 6142.) committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2002-08-31 From inactive file. To third reading. Joint Rule 61(b) suspended. Read third time, amended. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 2.) reading-1, reading-3, passage, amendment-passage
• 2002-08-15 To inactive file on motion of Senator Sher.
• 2002-06-27 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2002-06-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2002-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2002-06-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2002-05-23 Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2002-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. reading-1
• 2002-05-13 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 6062.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2002-05-09 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2002-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2002-05-07 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2002-05-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2002-04-15 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2002-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2002-03-07 Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2002-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2002-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9e3095c1-b1a6-4ce1-970f-7e4bcc6dd5da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).