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Bill	Digital financial asset businesses: regulatory oversight.	Existing law, the Money Transmission Act, generally prohibits a person from engaging in the business of money transmission, as defined, without a license from the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 39	California AB 39 (20232024)	bill	Digital financial asset businesses regulatory oversight	enacted	Grayson	12	33	9	2022-12-05	2023-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/ba434825-8d95-4098-bc7b-99cd8eddee30	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB39	0182e369b4634642916c8b7ec7a98b0ad626184a60f59d159fdfc4506a97c749	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 39 (20232024) — Digital financial asset businesses: regulatory oversight.

Existing law, the Money Transmission Act, generally prohibits a person from engaging in the business of money transmission, as defined, without a license from the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/30/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/26/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/18/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/12/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/06/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/13/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 10/13/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB39 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 39 Grayson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 39 Grayson Assembly Third Reading — 70–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB39 Grayson et al. By Limón — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Grayson — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Limón — principal coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-12-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-12-06 From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
• 2023-01-26 Referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2023-01-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & F. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-01-31 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 1789.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-06-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-07-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-06 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
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 2. Page 2650.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3528.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 792, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ba434825-8d95-4098-bc7b-99cd8eddee30. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).