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Bill	Fictitious business name statements.	Existing law requires a person who regularly transacts business in the state for profit under a fictitious business name to file a fictitious business name statement in accordance with prescribed requirements and to file a new statement after a change in the facts set forth in the statement. Existing law requires that these statements be filed with county clerks. Existing law authorizes a county to require a registrant that mails a fictitious business name statement to a county clerk's office for filing to submit a completed and notarized affidavit of identity. Existing law also authorizes a county clerk to require an agent acting for a person filing a fictitious business statement, generally referred to as a registrant, to submit a notarized statement signed by the registrant declaring the registrant has authorized the agent to submit the filing on behalf of the registrant.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 716	California AB 716 (20192020)	bill	Fictitious business name statements.	enacted	Chen	5	20	5	2019-02-19	2019-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/286383b4-661b-4da7-9076-74b97de75043	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB716	5d47fdd77f5fddab095b3f62c9635e1702789f1243f2fc3bb8cf4f1fb48884eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 716 (20192020) — Fictitious business name statements.

Existing law requires a person who regularly transacts business in the state for profit under a fictitious business name to file a fictitious business name statement in accordance with prescribed requirements and to file a new statement after a change in the facts set forth in the statement. Existing law requires that these statements be filed with county clerks. Existing law authorizes a county to require a registrant that mails a fictitious business name statement to a county clerk's office for filing to submit a completed and notarized affidavit of identity. Existing law also authorizes a county clerk to require an agent acting for a person filing a fictitious business statement, generally referred to as a registrant, to submit a notarized statement signed by the registrant declaring the registrant has authorized the agent to submit the filing on behalf of the registrant.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/07/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/26/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB716 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/18/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar AB716 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 716 Chen Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (March 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-03-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-01 From Consent Calendar.
• 2019-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. referral-committee
• 2019-05-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1637.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-22 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2019-06-10 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-11 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-06-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1607.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-06-18 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2019-06-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-06-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-06-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 15, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/286383b4-661b-4da7-9076-74b97de75043. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).