republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-2658.md

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Bill	Secretary of the Government Operations Agency: working group: blockchain technology.	Existing law, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, specifies that a record or signature may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form and that a contract may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because an electronic record was used in its formation. Among other things, the act provides that if a law requires a record to be in writing, or if a law requires a signature, an electronic record or signature satisfies the law.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2658	California AB 2658 (20172018)	bill	Secretary of the Government Operations Agency: working group: blockchain technology.	enacted	Calderon	8	29	9	2018-02-15	2018-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/938430e3-1f08-4ef4-a080-44b2d2aaec9f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2658	512c664f070a90bda90b80de3e85416fab3faa0de1c8efd98d14fc3674ae53e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2658 (20172018) — Secretary of the Government Operations Agency: working group: blockchain technology.

Existing law, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, specifies that a record or signature may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form and that a contract may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because an electronic record was used in its formation. Among other things, the act provides that if a law requires a record to be in writing, or if a law requires a signature, an electronic record or signature satisfies the law.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/09/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2658 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2658 CALDERON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2658 Calderon et al. By Hertzberg — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2658 CALDERON Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Calderon — primary (person)
• Hertzberg — principal coauthor (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.
• 2018-03-15 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-04-04 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-05 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-05-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-10 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2018-05-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5483.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2018-06-14 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
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5659.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6658.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 875, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/938430e3-1f08-4ef4-a080-44b2d2aaec9f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).