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Bill	State-funded research: State Department of Public Health.	Existing law authorizes the Department of General Services to carry out various powers and duties relating to assisting a state agency in the management and development of intellectual property developed by state employees or with state funding, including, among other duties, developing a database of state-owned intellectual property using specified data.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 609	California AB 609 (20132014)	bill	State-funded research: State Department of Public Health.	enacted	Nestande	12	33	9	2013-02-20	2014-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/f15230c5-deb6-4763-8f39-790abc79b544	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB609	17d145e844d159b8e80ad550aa59cd8fe6df5efa15c7be9abb35a15138bf9558	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 609 (20132014) — State-funded research: State Department of Public Health.

Existing law authorizes the Department of General Services to carry out various powers and duties relating to assisting a state agency in the management and development of intellectual property developed by state employees or with state funding, including, among other duties, developing a database of state-owned intellectual property using specified data.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/09/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/28/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/02/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/04/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 06/11/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 06/18/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/29/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB609 (committee substitute) — source
12. 08/20/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 609 NESTANDE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB609 Nestande By Hill — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 5–0 (fail) · upper
• Set, first hearing. Failed passage in Committee. Reconsideration granted. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 609 NESTANDE Assembly Third Reading — 71–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nestande — primary (person)
• Beth Gaines — coauthor (person)
• Gatto — author (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Olsen — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2013-03-07 Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2013-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2013-04-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-04-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2013-05-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (May 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-09 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
• 2013-05-13 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-28 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 7. Page 1814.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-13 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-06-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-25 In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
• 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 G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-10 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-06-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). 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. committee-passage
• 2014-08-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4455.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-18 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 6097.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2014-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 789, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f15230c5-deb6-4763-8f39-790abc79b544. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).