republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-620.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "County clerks: recordkeeping: registrations."
description: "Existing law defines and regulates the activities of legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants, process servers, and professional photocopiers. Existing law requires those professionals to register in the county in which his or her principal place of business is located. Existing law requires the county clerk of each county to maintain a register of, and assign a unique number to, those persons, and to issue an identification card to each registrant. Existing law requires the identification cards to contain a photograph and to meet varying minimum size requirements, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 620"
citation: "California AB 620 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County clerks: recordkeeping: registrations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John A. Perez"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2009-02-25"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2a6b23f-54cf-4ef7-be22-88da95b74a6b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB620"
source_hash: "9e41ece8bd2a382b80fcaf4bc850ed79ecba726cef339a6c9382a6fdda6c29d3"
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 620 (20092010) — County clerks: recordkeeping: registrations.

Existing law defines and regulates the activities of legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants, process servers, and professional photocopiers. Existing law requires those professionals to register in the county in which his or her principal place of business is located. Existing law requires the county clerk of each county to maintain a register of, and assign a unique number to, those persons, and to issue an identification card to each registrant. Existing law requires the identification cards to contain a photograph and to meet varying minimum size requirements, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB620&version=20090AB62099INT)
2. **07/23/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB620&version=20090AB62098AMD)
3. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB620&version=20090AB62096CHP)
4. **AB620** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB620)
5. **09/10/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB620&version=20090AB62097ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB620 John A. Perez By Corbett — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 620 PEREZ, J. Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 620 PEREZ, J. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- John A. Perez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2009-03-23** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-11** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-18** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 4. Page 1544.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-04** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on RLS. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-25** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-07-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-23** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-23** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-17** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2009-08-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-01** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2065.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-02** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 60. Noes 15. Page 3080.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-29** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 458, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2a6b23f-54cf-4ef7-be22-88da95b74a6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).