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Bill	Office of Small Business.	Existing law establishes the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as GO-Biz, and prescribes the duties and functions of the Small Business Advocate, who is also the Director of the Office of Small Business Advocate. Among these duties, the director is to serve as the principal advocate in the state on behalf of small businesses and to represent the views and interests of small businesses before other state agencies policies and activities of which may affect small businesses.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2687	California AB 2687 (20172018)	bill	Office of Small Business.	enacted	Quirk-Silva	6	23	6	2018-02-15	2018-09-05	openstates	ocd-bill/4610adaf-5039-4d45-9b8a-468ac48fa9bd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2687	f3a90eb3191e5791250f1fce7be40bf4d818548e5e0c704031415008224694e4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2687 (20172018) — Office of Small Business.

Existing law establishes the Office of Small Business Advocate within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as GO-Biz, and prescribes the duties and functions of the Small Business Advocate, who is also the Director of the Office of Small Business Advocate. Among these duties, the director is to serve as the principal advocate in the state on behalf of small businesses and to represent the views and interests of small businesses before other state agencies policies and activities of which may affect small businesses.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/26/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/07/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/05/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2687 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar AB2687 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2687 QUIRK-SILVA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2687 QUIRK-SILVA Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Quirk-Silva — primary (person)
• Cervantes — coauthor (person)
• Cooley — coauthor (person)
• Limón — author (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.
• 2018-03-01 Introduced measure version corrected. introduction
• 2018-03-08 Referred to Com. on J., E.D., & E. referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-26 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. 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 78. Noes 0. Page 5488.) 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 B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2018-06-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5281.). 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 6357.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 266, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4610adaf-5039-4d45-9b8a-468ac48fa9bd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).