republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-878.md

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Bill	Business filings: fictitious business names.	Existing law requires a person who regularly transacts business in the state for profit under a fictitious business name to file a fictitious business name statement in accordance with prescribed requirements within 40 days of commencing to transact business. Under existing law, a fictitious business name statement expires 5 years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk or 40 days after any change in specified facts included on that statement, except that a change in the residence address of an individual, general partner, or trustee does not cause the statement to expire.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 878	California AB 878 (20232024)	bill	Business filings fictitious business names	enacted	Pellerin	4	15	4	2023-02-14	2023-06-29	openstates	ocd-bill/e1d51a94-ef3a-43b4-8abd-5a3646006841	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB878	76c684f91370251e08be73d4beab77bb37c9cece042dfe12c61bc81fa081b30a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 878 (20232024) — Business filings: fictitious business names.

Existing law requires a person who regularly transacts business in the state for profit under a fictitious business name to file a fictitious business name statement in accordance with prescribed requirements within 40 days of commencing to transact business. Under existing law, a fictitious business name statement expires 5 years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk or 40 days after any change in specified facts included on that statement, except that a change in the residence address of an individual, general partner, or trustee does not cause the statement to expire.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/29/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB878 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/09/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 878 Pellerin Consent Calendar Second Day — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pellerin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2023-02-23 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (March 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-29 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 1079.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-04-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-03 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. referral-committee
• 2023-06-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-06 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-06-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1490.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-08 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2023-06-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2023-06-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-06-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 20, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e1d51a94-ef3a-43b4-8abd-5a3646006841. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).