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Bill	The California Finance Lenders Law: application.	Existing law, the California Finance Lenders Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of finance lenders and brokers. Existing law exempts from its provisions, among others, persons making 5 or fewer commercial loans in a 12-month period if the loans are incidental to the business of the person relying upon the exemption.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 777	California SB 777 (20152016)	bill	The California Finance Lenders Law: application.	enacted	Lara	7	34	7	2015-02-27	2016-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/a87e4501-be1f-4ebb-a16a-4c8a85edbb04	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB777	321c132a9660a688b20225505845a3398f73eb68c373f29cde357e80e100238a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 777 (20152016) — The California Finance Lenders Law: application.

Existing law, the California Finance Lenders Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of finance lenders and brokers. Existing law exempts from its provisions, among others, persons making 5 or fewer commercial loans in a 12-month period if the loans are incidental to the business of the person relying upon the exemption.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/04/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/11/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/22/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB777 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 777 Lara Senate Third Reading By SANTIAGO — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB777 Lara Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lara — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-19 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2015-04-21 Set for hearing May 12.
• 2015-05-12 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 973.) (May 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1029.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-18 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2015-07-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (July 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-20 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Holden.
• 2016-06-30 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2016-08-01 From inactive file.
• 2016-08-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-04 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-04 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-04 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2016-08-10 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-11 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2016-08-11 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5905.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
• 2016-08-25 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5387.) Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2016-08-25 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 5436.) committee-passage
• 2016-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5488.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2016-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 478, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a87e4501-be1f-4ebb-a16a-4c8a85edbb04. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).