republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-231.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Shareholders' meetings: remote communication."
description: "Existing law authorizes and regulates the formation and operation of a nonprofit public benefit corporation, nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, nonprofit religious corporation, or cooperative corporation. Existing law authorizes meetings of members to be held at any place as stated or fixed in the bylaws, as specified, and provides that, subject to certain conditions, members not physically present may participate in a meeting, be deemed present, and vote by electronic transmission by and to the corporation, electronic video screen communication, conference telephone, or other means of remote communication. Existing law prohibits conducting a meeting of members solely by electronic transmission, electronic video screen communication, conference telephone, or other remote communications unless all of the or members consent, the board determines it is necessary or appropriate because of an emergency, as defined, or if the meeting is conducted on or before June 30, 2022."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 231"
citation: "California AB 231 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Shareholders' meetings", "remote communication"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01193fe4-1319-4516-84ad-7469cd483f2a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB231"
source_hash: "76f66df3934614ebfaef3dc99ce1eb49508a058f77333ca3fc9f92ec00043480"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 231 (20232024) — Shareholders' meetings: remote communication.

Existing law authorizes and regulates the formation and operation of a nonprofit public benefit corporation, nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, nonprofit religious corporation, or cooperative corporation. Existing law authorizes meetings of members to be held at any place as stated or fixed in the bylaws, as specified, and provides that, subject to certain conditions, members not physically present may participate in a meeting, be deemed present, and vote by electronic transmission by and to the corporation, electronic video screen communication, conference telephone, or other means of remote communication. Existing law prohibits conducting a meeting of members solely by electronic transmission, electronic video screen communication, conference telephone, or other remote communications unless all of the or members consent, the board determines it is necessary or appropriate because of an emergency, as defined, or if the meeting is conducted on or before June 30, 2022.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/12/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB231&version=20230AB23199INT)
2. **07/27/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB231&version=20230AB23197CHP)
3. **AB231** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB231)
4. **07/14/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB231&version=20230AB23198ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 231 Chen Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-13** From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1272.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-07-10** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-07-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2038.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-07-13** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-07-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2023-07-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 115, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01193fe4-1319-4516-84ad-7469cd483f2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).