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Bill	Corporations: directors.	Existing law, the Nonprofit Corporation Law, regulates the organization and operation of nonprofit public benefit corporations, nonprofit mutual benefit corporations, and nonprofit religious corporations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2557	California AB 2557 (20172018)	bill	Corporations: directors.	enacted	Maienschein	6	23	7	2018-02-15	2018-09-10	openstates	ocd-bill/15c6b7bd-c0a3-4c71-b984-947d92790f73	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2557	c795007b1ced059182744326b32ec0aae646fc8ef78d20bcbe53688f8d4cd64c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2557 (20172018) — Corporations: directors.

Existing law, the Nonprofit Corporation Law, regulates the organization and operation of nonprofit public benefit corporations, nonprofit mutual benefit corporations, and nonprofit religious corporations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/12/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/10/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2557 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2557 MAIENSCHEIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2557 MAIENSCHEIN Consent Calendar Second Day — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB2557 — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2018-03-05 Referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2018-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-11 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-12 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4791.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-03 Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-05-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-07-03 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-07-03 Ordered to second reading.
• 2018-07-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-01 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2018-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5286.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6356.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 322, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/15c6b7bd-c0a3-4c71-b984-947d92790f73. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).