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Bill	Corporations: bylaws: emergency powers.	Existing law authorizes and regulates the formation and operation of a corporation, nonprofit public benefit corporation, nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, or nonprofit religious corporation, including, but not limited to, the adoption and contents of corporate bylaws.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 491	California AB 491 (20132014)	bill	Corporations: bylaws: emergency powers.	enacted	Torres	8	27	7	2013-02-19	2013-09-06	openstates	ocd-bill/198b0aa3-b6f9-43da-b4a0-d00330cd8c1a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB491	e157c98f59c58efc9216e90c1510b49c687a0dfa9722d2eb9d5f7b75223a2d3d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 491 (20132014) — Corporations: bylaws: emergency powers.

Existing law authorizes and regulates the formation and operation of a corporation, nonprofit public benefit corporation, nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, or nonprofit religious corporation, including, but not limited to, the adoption and contents of corporate bylaws.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/09/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/06/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/24/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB491 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/27/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 491 Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BONTA — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB491 Torres By Torres — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 491 TORRES Consent Calendar Second Day — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Torres — primary (person)
• Bonta — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2013-03-14 Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-04-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-04-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-10 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-05-08 From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1476.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-29 Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-06-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-06-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-18 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-06-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-06-20 From consent calendar.
• 2013-06-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2013-06-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-07-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1694.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2643.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2013-09-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-09-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 255, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/198b0aa3-b6f9-43da-b4a0-d00330cd8c1a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).