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Bill	Business licensing: fees: exemptions: veterans.	Existing law provides that every person who is honorably discharged or honorably relieved from the military, naval, or air service of the United States and is a resident of this state is entitled to obtain a license to distribute circulars and sell any goods, except alcohol, without payment of any state or local business license fees.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 498	California AB 498 (20192020)	bill	Business licensing: fees: exemptions: veterans.	enacted	Weber	6	24	8	2019-02-13	2019-09-05	openstates	ocd-bill/85e03267-9758-4514-a3bf-275db1244d4e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB498	4e979cf83b8837dded2773b03e8e30f8547d9ab042ae3d8856e07e309a3f0459	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 498 (20192020) — Business licensing: fees: exemptions: veterans.

Existing law provides that every person who is honorably discharged or honorably relieved from the military, naval, or air service of the United States and is a resident of this state is entitled to obtain a license to distribute circulars and sell any goods, except alcohol, without payment of any state or local business license fees.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/05/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB498 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/23/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent AB498 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 498 Weber Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 498 Weber Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Veterans Affairs] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Veterans Affairs] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Weber — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2019-02-25 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and V.A. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on V.A. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on V.A. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on V.A. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1474.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-16 Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and V.A. referral-committee
• 2019-05-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-06-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on V.A. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on V.A. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-07-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-07-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2057.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-07-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2789.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-09-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-09-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 227, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/85e03267-9758-4514-a3bf-275db1244d4e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).