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Bill	California Employee Ownership Act.	Existing law establishes the Office of Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA) within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as GO-Biz, to advocate for causes of small business and to provide small businesses with the information they need to survive in the marketplace.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 1407	California SB 1407 (20212022)	bill	California Employee Ownership Act.	enacted	Becker	8	31	8	2022-02-18	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/c236dace-c9ea-455f-af9a-1e74a98a6d74	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1407	3933a989d49369066d713f39de35a30d1f35f818260c77b70ad0f82ff9527baf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1407 (20212022) — California Employee Ownership Act.

Existing law establishes the Office of Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA) within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as GO-Biz, to advocate for causes of small business and to provide small businesses with the information they need to survive in the marketplace.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/14/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/28/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/15/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB1407 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent SB1407 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB1407 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1407 Becker Senate Third Reading By Cervantes — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Becker — primary (person)
• Borgeas — coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — principal coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-02-18 Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
• 2022-02-22 From printer.
• 2022-03-09 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2022-03-16 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2022-03-25 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2022-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 3412.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-22 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2022-05-02 May 2 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2022-05-13 Set for hearing May 19.
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3795.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3936.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-06-02 Referred to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. referral-committee
• 2022-06-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on J.,E.D., & E. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-27 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6021.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-22 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5342.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 733, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c236dace-c9ea-455f-af9a-1e74a98a6d74. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).