republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-351.md

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Bill	Corporations.	(1) The General Corporation Law generally authorizes the formation of general corporations. The Nonprofit Corporation Law authorizes the formation of public benefit corporations, mutual benefit corporations, and religious corporations. The Consumer Cooperative Corporation Law authorizes the formation of consumer cooperatives. Each of these laws require a corporation formed under its provisions to have specific corporate officers, which include, among others, a chair of the board, which is also referred to with gender variations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 351	California SB 351 (20152016)	bill	Corporations.	enacted	Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions	7	26	6	2015-02-24	2015-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/090b0bc6-f1ca-4e19-8c33-96b5330c87f7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB351	f241ca3c05b702f014f693a7f7fbbf70e0318cbd0854da80cfe45bbbe2e7b5a4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 351 (20152016) — Corporations.

(1) The General Corporation Law generally authorizes the formation of general corporations. The Nonprofit Corporation Law authorizes the formation of public benefit corporations, mutual benefit corporations, and religious corporations. The Consumer Cooperative Corporation Law authorizes the formation of consumer cooperatives. Each of these laws require a corporation formed under its provisions to have specific corporate officers, which include, among others, a chair of the board, which is also referred to with gender variations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/09/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/15/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB351 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/07/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 351 B.&.F.I. Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd SB351 Committee On B. & F.I. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #4 SB351 Committee On B. & F.I. — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-24 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2015-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-03-10 Set for hearing April 15.
• 2015-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 617.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-17 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2015-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 728.) (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-04 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-08 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2015-05-18 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2015-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1072.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and B. & P. referral-committee
• 2015-06-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-15 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2015-06-23 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-24 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2179.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-29 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-07-01 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2015-07-06 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1790.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2015-07-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-07-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 98, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/090b0bc6-f1ca-4e19-8c33-96b5330c87f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).