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Bill	Student loan servicers: licensing and regulation: Student Loan Servicing Act.	(1) Existing law establishes the Department of Business Oversight as headed by the Commissioner of Business Oversight, who, among other things, generally provides for the licensure and regulation of persons who are engaged in various consumer financial businesses, including, but not limited to, the business of making consumer or commercial loans.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2251	California AB 2251 (20152016)	bill	Student loan servicers: licensing and regulation: Student Loan Servicing Act.	enacted	Mark Stone	11	39	9	2016-02-18	2016-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/be2eba99-0d64-4f20-bcb0-b45674661285	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2251	e93b1a748085a7dde7ad5682c14f0c9f84fbe41235dba7208f52e3b5e5525515	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2251 (20152016) — Student loan servicers: licensing and regulation: Student Loan Servicing Act.

(1) Existing law establishes the Department of Business Oversight as headed by the Commissioner of Business Oversight, who, among other things, generally provides for the licensure and regulation of persons who are engaged in various consumer financial businesses, including, but not limited to, the business of making consumer or commercial loans.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/20/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/10/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/31/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/13/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/29/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB2251 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 2251 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2251 Mark Stone By Leno — 26–12 (pass) · upper
• That the measure be returned to Senate Floor for consideration. Ordered to third reading. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 15–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 2251 STONE Assembly Third Reading — 56–24 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark Stone — primary (person)
• Dababneh — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2016-03-03 Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and B. & F. referral-committee
• 2016-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2016-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2016-04-12 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-04-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (April 18). 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 APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-10 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
• 2016-05-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 5.) (May 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 24. Page 5188.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-20 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-06-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 29). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-08-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-08-08 Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b). referral-committee
• 2016-08-23 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2016-08-25 From committee: Return to Senate floor for consideration. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 25). committee-passage
• 2016-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 5487.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2016-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 24. Page 6540.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 824, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/be2eba99-0d64-4f20-bcb0-b45674661285. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).