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Bill	Refugees, asylees, and special immigrant visa holders: professional licensing: initial licensure process.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law prohibits a board within the department from denying licensure to an applicant based upon their citizenship or immigration status.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2113	California AB 2113 (20192020)	bill	Refugees asylees and special immigrant visa holders: professional licensing: initial licensure process.	enacted	Low	6	24	8	2020-02-06	2020-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/2fb77b33-413d-48ed-b8fe-cc49069eae02	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2113	949edea7252ba987a7bf82f2940ded34a6b837cda1990996a20d57a4240d97f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2113 (20192020) — Refugees, asylees, and special immigrant visa holders: professional licensing: initial licensure process.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law prohibits a board within the department from denying licensure to an applicant based upon their citizenship or immigration status.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/04/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/27/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2113 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2113 Low et al. By Pan — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2113 Low Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 2113 Low Assembly Third Reading — 66–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)
• Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Medina — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
• 2020-02-27 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2020-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2020-05-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 2.) (May 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-06-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (June 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-04 Coauthors revised.
• 2020-06-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 4. Page 4757.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2020-08-04 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4354.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 5337.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 186, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2fb77b33-413d-48ed-b8fe-cc49069eae02. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).