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Bill	Personal income taxes: deductions: business expenses: commercial cannabis activity.	Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities and authorizes persons to conduct specified commercial cannabis activities, as defined, in the state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 37	California AB 37 (20192020)	bill	Personal income taxes: deductions: business expenses: commercial cannabis activity.	enacted	Jones-Sawyer	7	25	8	2018-12-03	2019-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/1ccdaf85-4183-4335-9102-66f9a5b9cca1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB37	150348dee83908f2ee472984c70b75a9857557b45c5f2dd28802fcb6260cd33e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 37 (20192020) — Personal income taxes: deductions: business expenses: commercial cannabis activity.

Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities and authorizes persons to conduct specified commercial cannabis activities, as defined, in the state.

Version chain

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

1. 12/03/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB37 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/10/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 37 Jones-Sawyer Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 37 Jones-Sawyer Assembly Third Reading — 69–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB37 Jones-Sawyer et al. By McGuire — 33–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Cooley — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Quirk — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-12-04 From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
• 2019-01-17 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2019-03-11 In committee: Hearing for testimony only.
• 2019-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2019-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 1.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 1. Page 1854.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-24 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 5. Page 2517.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 3. Page 3117.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 792, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ccdaf85-4183-4335-9102-66f9a5b9cca1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).