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Bill	Financial institutions.	Existing law establishes the Department of Financial Institutions in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and provides that the department is in charge of the execution of specified laws relating to various financial institutions and financial services.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 979	California SB 979 (20112012)	bill	Financial institutions.	enacted	Vargas	7	27	8	2012-01-23	2012-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/607713e0-6ed7-4daf-a35b-4b08cb50ab9f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB979	393454bf57b916a069fb4524a0d551032918af1c2371758f12012da59d5b7c89	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 979 (20112012) — Financial institutions.

Existing law establishes the Department of Financial Institutions in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and provides that the department is in charge of the execution of specified laws relating to various financial institutions and financial services.

Version chain

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

1. 01/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/17/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB979 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/27/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #12 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB979 Vargas Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 979 Vargas Senate Third Reading By DICKINSON — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Vargas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-01-23 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2012-01-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23.
• 2012-02-02 Referred to Com. on B. & F.I. referral-committee
• 2012-04-05 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2012-04-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3205.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-20 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2012-04-30 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2012-05-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-05-18 Set for hearing May 24.
• 2012-05-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3589.) (May 24). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-29 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3750.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-06-11 Referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2012-07-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-08 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6064.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-21 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-23 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4761.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 356, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/607713e0-6ed7-4daf-a35b-4b08cb50ab9f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).