republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-269.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial fishing businesses and marine aquaria: landing receipts."
description: "(1) Existing law regulating commercial fishing imposes, or authorizes the imposition of, various license, permit, and registration fees. Existing law requires specified persons to pay commercial fishing fees, referred to as landing fees, and sets forth requirements for the documentation of those landing fees in the form of a landing receipt, as prescribed. Existing law requires that a person required to be licensed as a marine aquaria receiver make a legible, true, and complete record of the landing receipts on a form and in a manner prescribed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and deliver copies of those receipts to the department on or before the first and 16th day of each month, as provided. Existing law requires a person licensed as a commercial fish business who takes his or her own fish to make a legible record in the form of a landing receipt, as specified, at the time the fish are brought ashore, and requires that the original signed copy of the landing receipt be delivered by the licensee to the department on or before the 16th day or the last day of the month in which the fish were landed, whichever date occurs first after landing. Under existing law, a violation of the Fish and Game Code is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 269"
citation: "California SB 269 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commercial fishing businesses and marine aquaria: landing receipts."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGuire"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-08"
last_action: "2018-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b37e0f01-8f41-4363-9012-eeb02d64a9a4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB269"
source_hash: "c1ca7a7c8de9fd34dabbbd81ba7797b14a77d69917cb5307e58bde5711b0c96b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 269 (20172018) — Commercial fishing businesses and marine aquaria: landing receipts.

(1) Existing law regulating commercial fishing imposes, or authorizes the imposition of, various license, permit, and registration fees. Existing law requires specified persons to pay commercial fishing fees, referred to as landing fees, and sets forth requirements for the documentation of those landing fees in the form of a landing receipt, as prescribed. Existing law requires that a person required to be licensed as a marine aquaria receiver make a legible, true, and complete record of the landing receipts on a form and in a manner prescribed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and deliver copies of those receipts to the department on or before the first and 16th day of each month, as provided. Existing law requires a person licensed as a commercial fish business who takes his or her own fish to make a legible record in the form of a landing receipt, as specified, at the time the fish are brought ashore, and requires that the original signed copy of the landing receipt be delivered by the licensee to the department on or before the 16th day or the last day of the month in which the fish were landed, whichever date occurs first after landing. Under existing law, a violation of the Fish and Game Code is a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB269&version=20170SB26999INT)
2. **06/19/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB269&version=20170SB26998AMD)
3. **08/06/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB269&version=20170SB26997AMD)
4. **09/20/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB269&version=20170SB26995CHP)
5. **SB269** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB269)
6. **08/28/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB269&version=20170SB26996ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB269 McGuire Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McGuire — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-08** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 11.
- **2017-02-16** Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-18** Set for hearing March 14.
- **2017-03-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 364.) (March 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Set for hearing April 3.
- **2017-04-03** April 3 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2017-05-19** Set for hearing May 25.
- **2017-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1180.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 12. Page 1347.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-12** Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-19** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-08-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-08** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6309.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-16** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2018-08-20** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-20** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5450.) Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-08-21** Set for hearing August 22.
- **2018-08-22** From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 5619.) `committee-passage`
- **2018-08-24** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5685.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2018-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 601, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b37e0f01-8f41-4363-9012-eeb02d64a9a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).