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Bill	The Promote Ownership by Workers for Economic Recovery Act.	Existing law, the Cooperative Corporation Law, authorizes the formation of a corporation for any lawful purpose that is organized and conducts its business primarily for the mutual benefit of its members as patrons of the corporation. Existing law authorizes a corporation organized under those provisions to elect to be governed as a worker cooperative, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2849	California AB 2849 (20212022)	bill	The Promote Ownership by Workers for Economic Recovery Act.	enacted	Mia Bonta	8	31	10	2022-02-18	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/d16024ff-7173-494d-9c1b-59cd920c5f49	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2849	93b506e294aa75c258c0fb5be1e887b4cea78d43d25b1fe269b9b44bb08cc460	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2849 (20212022) — The Promote Ownership by Workers for Economic Recovery Act.

Existing law, the Cooperative Corporation Law, authorizes the formation of a corporation for any lawful purpose that is organized and conducts its business primarily for the mutual benefit of its members as patrons of the corporation. Existing law authorizes a corporation organized under those provisions to elect to be governed as a worker cooperative, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/19/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/11/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/17/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2849 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2849 Mia Bonta et al. By Becker — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2849 Mia Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 61–14 (pass) · lower
• AB 2849 Mia Bonta Assembly Third Reading — 56–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor and Employment] — 9–3 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mia Bonta — primary (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2022-03-24 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and B. & F. referral-committee
• 2022-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2022-03-28 Re-referred to Coms. on B. & F. and L. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2022-03-31 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4108.)
• 2022-03-31 (pending re-refer to Com. on L. & E.)
• 2022-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 15. Page 5005.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-17 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 14.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 808, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d16024ff-7173-494d-9c1b-59cd920c5f49. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).