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Bill	Business entities: filings.	(1) The General Corporation Law, the Social Purpose Corporations Act, and the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, authorize the Secretary of State, upon payment of a fee by the applicant, to issue a certificate of reservation of any name, not otherwise prohibited.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1471	California AB 1471 (20152016)	bill	Business entities: filings.	enacted	Perea	7	22	6	2015-02-27	2015-08-12	openstates	ocd-bill/86e4c737-c304-4895-acd5-13692a92fc0c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1471	be5e8c20f99a2dca231ee5f9e26a95da24de0642f90b88c47a7b265ac90bb5b1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1471 (20152016) — Business entities: filings.

(1) The General Corporation Law, the Social Purpose Corporations Act, and the California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, authorize the Secretary of State, upon payment of a fee by the applicant, to issue a certificate of reservation of any name, not otherwise prohibited.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/14/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/12/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1471 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/21/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1471 PEREA Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1471 PEREA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Perea — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2015-04-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2015-04-28 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1263.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-14 Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-06-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-07-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1754.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-07-16 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2406.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2015-08-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-08-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 189, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86e4c737-c304-4895-acd5-13692a92fc0c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).