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Bill	Real estate licenses.	(1) Under the Real Estate Law, the California Bureau of Real Estate, which is headed by the Real Estate Commissioner, issues licenses to and regulates real estate brokers and real estate salespersons. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to prescribe the format and content of the written applications for the real estate broker examination, broker license, and salesperson examination.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2540	California AB 2540 (20132014)	bill	Real estate licenses.	enacted	Dababneh	9	27	6	2014-02-21	2014-08-25	openstates	ocd-bill/1bc57ed1-3bcb-4d02-967f-8d91334c526b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2540	b2576b9e6fda1d0794b4d39272212aa31db26d69f1b7b15750e9fec8b989a04f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2540 (20132014) — Real estate licenses.

(1) Under the Real Estate Law, the California Bureau of Real Estate, which is headed by the Real Estate Commissioner, issues licenses to and regulates real estate brokers and real estate salespersons. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to prescribe the format and content of the written applications for the real estate broker examination, broker license, and salesperson examination.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/08/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/18/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/05/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/25/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2540 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/13/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2540 DABABNEH Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2540 DABABNEH Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dababneh — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2014-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2014-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2014-03-13 Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-04-07 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
• 2014-04-08 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-04-22 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-23 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-05-07 From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4973.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-15 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
• 2014-06-05 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-06-16 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-06-18 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
• 2014-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-08-04 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, be amended, and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4378.). 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 5961.). 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 295, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1bc57ed1-3bcb-4d02-967f-8d91334c526b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).