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Bill	Corporations: ratification or validation of noncompliant corporate actions.	The General Corporation Law provides for the formation of domestic general corporations by the execution and filing of articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State. Under that law, the business and affairs of these corporations are generally managed by, and all corporate powers are exercised by or under, the direction of their boards of directors, and each director is elected by shareholder vote, with certain exceptions, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 218	California SB 218 (20212022)	bill	Corporations: ratification or validation of noncompliant corporate actions.	enacted	Jones	8	32	8	2021-01-13	2022-08-29	openstates	ocd-bill/f3d6c9e5-96f8-4034-875e-7cc0a44b9082	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB218	2ca3ba057c6861d46414b6a02e9978b678784cabbe4b766ec9d165edad9b14d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 218 (20212022) — Corporations: ratification or validation of noncompliant corporate actions.

The General Corporation Law provides for the formation of domestic general corporations by the execution and filing of articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State. Under that law, the business and affairs of these corporations are generally managed by, and all corporate powers are exercised by or under, the direction of their boards of directors, and each director is elected by shareholder vote, with certain exceptions, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/13/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/03/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/08/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/07/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB218 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/10/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB218 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 218 Jones Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar SB218 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jones — primary (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-01-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 13.
• 2021-01-28 Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-02-18 Set for hearing March 10.
• 2021-03-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 455.) (March 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2021-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-07 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 685.) (April 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-08 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2021-04-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 886.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-13 Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 June 14 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-06-25 June 28 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-06-28 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 19. Page 2124.)
• 2021-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-08 July 13 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-01-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-01-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 22). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-06-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5639.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-06-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-08 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4684.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
• 2022-08-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-08-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 217, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f3d6c9e5-96f8-4034-875e-7cc0a44b9082. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).