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Bill	Energy efficiency programs: information available for small businesses.	Existing law creates the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development. Existing law establishes the duties and functions of the advocate, which include advisory participation in the consideration of all legislation and administrative regulations that affect small businesses. Existing law also requires the office to post specified information on its Internet Web site, including information about emergency preparedness, responses, and recovery strategies for small businesses and information regarding programs administered through the statewide network of small business financial development corporations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2137	California AB 2137 (20132014)	bill	Energy efficiency programs: information available for small businesses.	enacted	Quirk	10	29	6	2014-02-20	2014-08-25	openstates	ocd-bill/7ef77eab-bbfc-4987-82fb-e483a0708615	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2137	dc81602a1499da10a0f8a977d5e9e5b9cf9c428977bb6234f752913f3eec70df	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2137 (20132014) — Energy efficiency programs: information available for small businesses.

Existing law creates the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development. Existing law establishes the duties and functions of the advocate, which include advisory participation in the consideration of all legislation and administrative regulations that affect small businesses. Existing law also requires the office to post specified information on its Internet Web site, including information about emergency preparedness, responses, and recovery strategies for small businesses and information regarding programs administered through the statewide network of small business financial development corporations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/06/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/15/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/25/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/05/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/25/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2137 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/13/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2137 QUIRK Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2137 Quirk By Fuller — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2137 QUIRK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Quirk — 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.
• 2014-03-28 Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2014-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2014-04-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-04-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2014-04-28 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4633.)
• 2014-05-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-06 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-05-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-05-21 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5202.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on E., U., & C. referral-committee
• 2014-06-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-06-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-04 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4373.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5951.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2014-08-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-08-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 290, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7ef77eab-bbfc-4987-82fb-e483a0708615. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).