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Bill	Contractors: initial license fee reduction: veterans.	Under existing law, the Department of Consumer Affairs is composed of various boards that license and regulate various professions and vocations. Existing law requires a board within the department to expedite, and authorizes a board to assist in, the initial licensure process for an applicant who supplies satisfactory evidence to the board that the applicant has served as an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States and was honorably discharged.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2105	California AB 2105 (20212022)	bill	Contractors: initial license fee reduction: veterans.	enacted	Smith	5	20	7	2022-02-14	2022-08-22	openstates	ocd-bill/2b6daa5f-46d7-42c0-ace7-06760f16dcc2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2105	700c200bc3204166181bdd11ecc1c71e4c4498084fc28731955b77d001bde88b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2105 (20212022) — Contractors: initial license fee reduction: veterans.

Under existing law, the Department of Consumer Affairs is composed of various boards that license and regulate various professions and vocations. Existing law requires a board within the department to expedite, and authorizes a board to assist in, the initial licensure process for an applicant who supplies satisfactory evidence to the board that the applicant has served as an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States and was honorably discharged.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/31/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/22/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2105 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/12/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2105 Smith Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB2105 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2105 Smith Consent Calendar Second Day — 61–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Smith — primary (person)
• Chen — coauthor (person)
• Choi — coauthor (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)
• Flora — coauthor (person)
• Fong — coauthor (person)
• Jones — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• Nguyen — coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)
• Patterson — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
• Seyarto — coauthor (person)
• Villapudua — coauthor (person)
• Voepel — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2022-02-24 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2022-03-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 0. Page 4578.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-18 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and M. & V.A. referral-committee
• 2022-05-31 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 6). Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-01 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4681.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5811.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-08-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-08-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 156, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b6daa5f-46d7-42c0-ace7-06760f16dcc2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).