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Bill	Corporations: electronic transmissions.	Existing law provides requirements for an authorized electronic transmission by a corporation, including without limitation, that the recipient has provided an unrevoked consent to the means of transmission and that an electronic transmission to an individual shareholder or member satisfies the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 285	California AB 285 (20092010)	bill	Corporations: electronic transmissions.	enacted	Tran	5	22	6	2009-02-13	2009-08-06	openstates	ocd-bill/17b03d8d-7394-4e39-8969-b36507484b7c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB285	64da1b568c8b1e29e6f4d30823821721edac81ce7776a690c8a9479b9cd37dd8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 285 (20092010) — Corporations: electronic transmissions.

Existing law provides requirements for an authorized electronic transmission by a corporation, including without limitation, that the recipient has provided an unrevoked consent to the means of transmission and that an electronic transmission to an individual shareholder or member satisfies the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/12/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/06/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB285 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/26/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #9 AB285 Tran — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 285 TRAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 285 TRAN Consent Calendar Second Day — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Tran — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2009-03-04 Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-03-24 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-03-31 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (March 31). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-01 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-13 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 823.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-04-30 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-05-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-06-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-06-10 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-16 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-06-22 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1377.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-06-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2262.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-06-30 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2009-07-01 Withdrawn from Governor.
• 2009-07-01 Ordered returned to enrollment.
• 2009-07-30 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2009-08-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-08-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 96, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17b03d8d-7394-4e39-8969-b36507484b7c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).