republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-224.md

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Bill	Business.	Until January 1, 2010, existing law provides that a licensee in ordinary course of business, as defined, takes its rights under a nonexclusive license free of a security interest in the intangible created by the licensor and takes its leasehold interest free of a security interest in the goods created by the lessor, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 224	California AB 224 (20092010)	bill	Business.	enacted	Portantino	10	31	7	2009-02-04	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/c1d23b3e-5a56-41cd-80d8-e5d7fd606b09	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB224	8c460623dea049d24260b3a8f0945e96daad93186121c6c2e3bef61c51fa7bb0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 224 (20092010) — Business.

Until January 1, 2010, existing law provides that a licensee in ordinary course of business, as defined, takes its rights under a nonexclusive license free of a security interest in the intangible created by the licensor and takes its leasehold interest free of a security interest in the goods created by the lessor, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/04/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/14/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/02/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/17/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB224 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/21/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 224 PORTANTINO Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #19 AB224 Portantino By Simitian — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 224 PORTANTINO Concurrence- Urgency Added — pass (pass) · lower
• Senate amendments be concurred in. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-04 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-05 From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
• 2009-03-04 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2009-03-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 17). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-03-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-04-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-04-14 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-15 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-20 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 982.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-04-30 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2009-06-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-06-03 Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2009-08-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-08-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-08-26 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-08-27 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
• 2009-08-27 (Page 1960.)
• 2009-08-31 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-02 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-09-04 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2224.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-09 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2009-09-09 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 3230.)
• 2009-09-10 From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (September 10). committee-passage
• 2009-09-11 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3356.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-28 Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 315, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c1d23b3e-5a56-41cd-80d8-e5d7fd606b09. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).