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Bill	Business licenses.	Existing law authorizes the legislative body of an incorporated city and the county board of supervisors to license businesses carried on within their respective jurisdictions and to set license fees as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2184	California AB 2184 (20172018)	bill	Business licenses.	enacted	Chiu	8	29	8	2018-02-12	2018-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/7add0bff-b872-40aa-9c46-7e70f88967aa	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2184	dfb5e54cf09744fd2926eecbd4f278c1360097d6cbf4bc8788c42d59854356c1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2184 (20172018) — Business licenses.

Existing law authorizes the legislative body of an incorporated city and the county board of supervisors to license businesses carried on within their respective jurisdictions and to set license fees as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/19/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/28/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/06/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/14/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2184 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/24/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2184 Chiu et al. By Lara — 31–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2184 CHIU Assembly Third Reading — 58–10 (pass) · lower
• AB 2184 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 64–9 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Lara — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2018-03-22 Re-referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2018-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-19 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2018-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 Coauthors revised.
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 10. Page 5409.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 2. Page 5442.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 9. Page 6498.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 388, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7add0bff-b872-40aa-9c46-7e70f88967aa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).