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Bill	Professions and vocations: registration.	(1) Existing law defines and regulates the activities of legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants, as those terms are defined. Existing law requires a legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant to be registered in the county in which his or her principal place of business is located, which is deemed the primary place of registration, and in any other county in which he or she performs acts for which registration is required, which is deemed a secondary place of registration. A violation of this requirement is a misdemeanor. Existing law prohibits a legal document assistant from providing self-help service, as defined, for compensation unless he or she is registered in the county in which his or her principal place of business is located and in any other county in which he or she performs acts for which registration is required. Existing law requires a county clerk to, among other things, issue an identification card to each registered legal document assistant and unlawful detainer assistant.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 285	California AB 285 (20152016)	bill	Professions and vocations: registration.	enacted	Gallagher	9	27	7	2015-02-11	2015-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/64efd723-e803-4b93-880a-7e6a7d925dee	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB285	66005d4639d9becba407e8014b6633643c22abbab75f030ee587e65846304545	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 285 (20152016) — Professions and vocations: registration.

(1) Existing law defines and regulates the activities of legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants, as those terms are defined. Existing law requires a legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant to be registered in the county in which his or her principal place of business is located, which is deemed the primary place of registration, and in any other county in which he or she performs acts for which registration is required, which is deemed a secondary place of registration. A violation of this requirement is a misdemeanor. Existing law prohibits a legal document assistant from providing self-help service, as defined, for compensation unless he or she is registered in the county in which his or her principal place of business is located and in any other county in which he or she performs acts for which registration is required. Existing law requires a county clerk to, among other things, issue an identification card to each registered legal document assistant and unlawful detainer assistant.

Version chain

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

1. 02/11/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/02/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/21/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB285 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/03/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 285 GALLAGHER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB285 Gallagher By Nielsen — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 285 GALLAGHER Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gallagher — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 21). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-23 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2015-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-20 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1594.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-06-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-17 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2015-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2196.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2670.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 295, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/64efd723-e803-4b93-880a-7e6a7d925dee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).