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Bill	Sellers of travel.	Existing law regulates sellers of travel, as defined, and requires their registration with the Attorney General. Under existing law, a seller of travel is deemed to do business in this state if the seller of travel solicits business from locations in this state or solicits prospective purchasers who are located in this state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2138	California AB 2138 (20152016)	bill	Sellers of travel.	enacted	Low	6	24	6	2016-02-17	2016-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/84ec02c3-d93c-4144-8d30-3c88a20cfc99	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2138	0260fd90850737b53a4503360117fa139c744d327e0d81b75c24e40e6e7a2cec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2138 (20152016) — Sellers of travel.

Existing law regulates sellers of travel, as defined, and requires their registration with the Attorney General. Under existing law, a seller of travel is deemed to do business in this state if the seller of travel solicits business from locations in this state or solicits prospective purchasers who are located in this state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/20/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/10/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/09/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2138 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/23/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2138 Low By Pan — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2138 LOW Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media] — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 2138 LOW Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2016-02-29 Referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. and B. & P. referral-committee
• 2016-04-07 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-04-07 Re-referred to Coms. on B. & P. and A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2016-04-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (April 19). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-20 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. referral-committee
• 2016-05-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4725.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-06-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-20 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-06-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-10 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4982.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6043.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 262, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/84ec02c3-d93c-4144-8d30-3c88a20cfc99. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).