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Bill	Secretary of State: storing and recording electronic media.	Existing law requires the Secretary of State to approve and adopt uniform statewide standards for the purpose of storing and recording permanent and nonpermanent documents in electronic media, as specified, and requires those standards to include a requirement that a trusted system, as defined, be utilized.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 22	California AB 22 (20172018)	bill	Secretary of State: storing and recording electronic media.	enacted	Bonta	9	30	6	2016-12-05	2017-10-15	openstates	ocd-bill/c1a87700-2100-4bf4-abcc-e385ce96afe8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB22	e5191cf796abaab9d5747d831bf372c83f19b821bab8aff809b130f153e5df43	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 22 (20172018) — Secretary of State: storing and recording electronic media.

Existing law requires the Secretary of State to approve and adopt uniform statewide standards for the purpose of storing and recording permanent and nonpermanent documents in electronic media, as specified, and requires those standards to include a requirement that a trusted system, as defined, be utilized.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/17/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/15/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB22 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 22 BONTA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB22 Bonta By Glazer — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 22 BONTA Assembly Third Reading — 41–30 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonta — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-12-06 From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
• 2017-01-19 Referred to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. referral-committee
• 2017-04-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. referral-committee
• 2017-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 41. Noes 30. Page 1429.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2017-06-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-06 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-06-06 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-06-14 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2017-07-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2780.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
• 2017-09-13 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2017-09-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3273.)
• 2017-09-14 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (September 14). committee-passage
• 2017-09-15 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3500.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 834, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c1a87700-2100-4bf4-abcc-e385ce96afe8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).