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Bill	California Film Commission: membership and duties.	Existing law, the Motion Picture, Television, and Commercial Industries Act of 1984, establishes the California Film Commission within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development. Under existing law, the Governor appoints 13 of the 26 members of the commission, with 6 of those appointments based upon specified occupational criteria. Existing law requires the commission to, among other duties, adopt guidelines for a standardized film permit and to administer the qualified motion picture tax credits.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1941	California AB 1941 (20152016)	bill	California Film Commission: membership and duties.	enacted	Lopez	7	23	6	2016-02-12	2016-08-22	openstates	ocd-bill/d789547a-8965-4b13-aaa6-295eb81baab0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1941	d3597ec4a11381169f17ce1acd21ef504e9f0d4fbfeb165787e2d5efdb106570	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1941 (20152016) — California Film Commission: membership and duties.

Existing law, the Motion Picture, Television, and Commercial Industries Act of 1984, establishes the California Film Commission within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development. Under existing law, the Governor appoints 13 of the 26 members of the commission, with 6 of those appointments based upon specified occupational criteria. Existing law requires the commission to, among other duties, adopt guidelines for a standardized film permit and to administer the qualified motion picture tax credits.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/06/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1941 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/05/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1941 LOPEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1941 LOPEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lopez — primary (person)
• Chu — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. referral-committee
• 2016-04-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. referral-committee
• 2016-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4786.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-26 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2016-06-06 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. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-27 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2016-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4650.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-04 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5698.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2016-08-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-08-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 176, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d789547a-8965-4b13-aaa6-295eb81baab0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).