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Bill	Business filings: fictitious business name statements.	Existing law requires a person transacting business in the state under a fictitious name, as defined, to file, with the county clerk of the county where the business is located, a statement including specified information and to declare that the information is true and correct. Under existing law, a registrant who declares as true information that the registrant knows to be false, or otherwise executes, files, or publishes any statement under these provisions, knowing that the statement is false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1325	California AB 1325 (20112012)	bill	Business filings: fictitious business name statements.	enacted	Lara	7	22	6	2011-02-18	2012-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/7ecf6b25-9925-46d4-a245-e4c6866a5f8b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1325	9ee605bec90d0ceda1b58a76d59e7de500ecd9e96d197a65221a85bf30c74412	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1325 (20112012) — Business filings: fictitious business name statements.

Existing law requires a person transacting business in the state under a fictitious name, as defined, to file, with the county clerk of the county where the business is located, a statement including specified information and to declare that the information is true and correct. Under existing law, a registrant who declares as true information that the registrant knows to be false, or otherwise executes, files, or publishes any statement under these provisions, knowing that the statement is false, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/19/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/02/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/19/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1325 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/20/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1325 LARA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1325 LARA Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1325 Lara By Negrete McLeod — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lara — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2012-01-04 Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-01-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-01-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (January 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-19 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-01-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3607.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-01-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-02-16 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2012-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4479.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-16 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5945.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:05 p.m.
• 2012-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 368, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7ecf6b25-9925-46d4-a245-e4c6866a5f8b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).