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Bill	Real estate licensees: fictitious business names.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and real estate salespersons by the Bureau of Real Estate headed by the Real Estate Commissioner. Existing law requires an applicant who desires to have his or her license issued under a fictitious business name to file with his or her application a certified copy of his or her fictitious business name statement. Under existing law, any violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2018	California AB 2018 (20132014)	bill	Real estate licensees: fictitious business names.	enacted	Bocanegra	10	35	6	2014-02-20	2014-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/770ec4ba-e21a-44ea-b74b-af2891ca7e3d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2018	f2563a7715b7e7cce519c4d72e5d807c7b8434367efb37151bc32ebc42eb5d91	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2018 (20132014) — Real estate licensees: fictitious business names.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and real estate salespersons by the Bureau of Real Estate headed by the Real Estate Commissioner. Existing law requires an applicant who desires to have his or her license issued under a fictitious business name to file with his or her application a certified copy of his or her fictitious business name statement. Under existing law, any violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/02/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/09/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/06/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/12/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/30/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2018 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/22/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• amendments be concurred in. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2018 Bocanegra By Padilla — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2018 BOCANEGRA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2018 BOCANEGRA Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bocanegra — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2014-03-03 Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-04-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-05-05 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2014-05-05 Ordered to second reading.
• 2014-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4844.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-22 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2014-06-02 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-05 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-06-09 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-30 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2014-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-07-03 From consent calendar.
• 2014-07-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2014-08-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-12 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4502.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-18 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2014-08-19 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6192.)
• 2014-08-20 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage
• 2014-08-21 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6280.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 892, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/770ec4ba-e21a-44ea-b74b-af2891ca7e3d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).