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Bill	Private investigators: experience for licensure.	Existing law, the Private Investigator Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of private investigators by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services within the Department of Consumer Affairs and requires the Director of Consumer Affairs to administer and enforce the act. Existing law requires an applicant for licensure under that act to take an examination. Existing law requires an applicant for examination to have experience in certain activities performed in connection with investigations, as specified, and only if the activities are performed by persons who are employed or managed in certain capacities, including, among others, persons trained as investigators and employed by a public defender to conduct investigations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2632	California AB 2632 (20152016)	bill	Private investigators: experience for licensure.	enacted	Olsen	6	23	5	2016-02-19	2016-09-13	openstates	ocd-bill/839fe014-faf5-4a09-9f2f-b5ad8febda42	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2632	8a71b4fc9ae483eb41c95ef719bd7444053a8b9b9cecd4c98757ac370e8375ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2632 (20152016) — Private investigators: experience for licensure.

Existing law, the Private Investigator Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of private investigators by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services within the Department of Consumer Affairs and requires the Director of Consumer Affairs to administer and enforce the act. Existing law requires an applicant for licensure under that act to take an examination. Existing law requires an applicant for examination to have experience in certain activities performed in connection with investigations, as specified, and only if the activities are performed by persons who are employed or managed in certain capacities, including, among others, persons trained as investigators and employed by a public defender to conduct investigations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/13/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2632 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/17/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2632 OLSEN Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2632 Olsen By Bates — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Olsen — primary (person)
• Jones — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2016-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2016-04-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 12). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-18 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-19 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 4788.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. 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
• 2016-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4952.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2016-08-18 Enrolled measure version corrected.
• 2016-08-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 333, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/839fe014-faf5-4a09-9f2f-b5ad8febda42. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).