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Bill	Gambling control.	Existing law establishes the California Gambling Control Commission, prescribes the requirements for obtaining a gambling license, and defines a gambling establishment or licensed premises for these purposes. Existing law prohibits a contract for the sale or lease of real or personal property that requires the approval or licensing of the transferee by the commission from specifying a closing date earlier than 90 days after the submission of the completed application for approval or licensing to the commission.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 156	California AB 156 (20112012)	bill	Gambling control.	enacted	Lara	8	28	6	2011-01-18	2011-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/bd075eb9-c049-4ab5-a720-5216972d4adf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB156	1b3c1e0e83c7d0d4eb54d41e5a23e28f913efd2cf5c7da1a23bb1652fe30846a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 156 (20112012) — Gambling control.

Existing law establishes the California Gambling Control Commission, prescribes the requirements for obtaining a gambling license, and defines a gambling establishment or licensed premises for these purposes. Existing law prohibits a contract for the sale or lease of real or personal property that requires the approval or licensing of the transferee by the commission from specifying a closing date earlier than 90 days after the submission of the completed application for approval or licensing to the commission.

Version chain

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

1. 01/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/23/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/29/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/02/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB156 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/09/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB156 Lara By Correa — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 156 LARA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 156 LARA Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lara — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-01-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-01-19 From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
• 2011-02-03 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2011-03-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2011-04-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-05-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1504.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2011-06-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-15 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2011-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-17 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-08-22 From Special Consent Calendar pursuant to Joint Rule 22.2.
• 2011-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-08-29 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2200.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2899.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 391, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bd075eb9-c049-4ab5-a720-5216972d4adf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).