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Bill	Advertising: business location representations: floral businesses.	Existing law provides for the regulation of advertising in this state and makes certain advertising practices unlawful. A violation of the provisions regulating advertising is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1581	California AB 1581 (20112012)	bill	Advertising: business location representations: floral businesses.	enacted	Wieckowski	6	21	5	2012-02-02	2012-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/e6ea3ae4-412d-427b-b3c6-2df6a60d30d9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1581	ed131f5812741c058415be0480caa19436998931f1ace0ecc9d39cdcc013997e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1581 (20112012) — Advertising: business location representations: floral businesses.

Existing law provides for the regulation of advertising in this state and makes certain advertising practices unlawful. A violation of the provisions regulating advertising is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/02/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/26/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1581 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1581 WIECKOWSKI Assembly Third Reading — 60–11 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1581 Wieckowski By Wolk — 29–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wieckowski — primary (person)
• Wolk — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-02 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-03 From printer. May be heard in committee March 4.
• 2012-02-17 Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Further hearing to be set.
• 2012-03-29 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
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 11. Page 4671.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-17 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2012-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-25 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 4471.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-13 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2012-08-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2012-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 633, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e6ea3ae4-412d-427b-b3c6-2df6a60d30d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).