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Bill	Franchises.	(1) Existing law, the California Franchise Relations Act, sets forth certain requirements related to the termination, nonrenewal, and transfer of franchises between a franchisor, subfranchisor, and franchisee, as those terms are defined. Existing law provides that the act applies to any franchise when either the franchisee is domiciled in this state or the franchised business is or has been operated in this state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 676	California AB 676 (20212022)	bill	Franchises.	enacted	Holden	7	30	10	2021-02-12	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/1f1c4ae0-cbed-4d41-8701-0ad844f09dff	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB676	cdbefaacf516caa20f4012b88a7e449595dbc9c89790ee224327a01404c912fa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 676 (20212022) — Franchises.

(1) Existing law, the California Franchise Relations Act, sets forth certain requirements related to the termination, nonrenewal, and transfer of franchises between a franchisor, subfranchisor, and franchisee, as those terms are defined. Existing law provides that the act applies to any franchise when either the franchisee is domiciled in this state or the franchised business is or has been operated in this state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/03/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/14/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/26/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB676 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB676 Holden By Wilk — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Banking and Financial Institutions] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 676 Holden Assembly Third Reading — 63–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 676 Holden Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Holden — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-01-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2022-01-06 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 3242.)
• 2022-01-06 (pending re-refer to com. on JUD.) referral-committee
• 2022-01-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (January 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-01-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-01-14 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-01-18 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-01-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (January 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-01-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-01-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 1. Page 3402.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-01-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-04 Referred to Coms. on JUD., B. & F.I. and B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2022-05-05 Action rescinded whereby the bill was referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2022-05-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & F.I. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 22). 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: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5061.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 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 728, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1f1c4ae0-cbed-4d41-8701-0ad844f09dff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).