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Bill	Franchise Investment Law: franchise brokers.	Existing law, the Franchise Investment Law, generally provides for the regulation of the offer and sale of franchises and requires the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation to maintain a risk-based process of reviewing franchise applications with emphasis on risks associated with the franchisor's financial condition, the franchisor's compliance record, and significant deficiencies with the franchisor's application. The law requires specific written disclosures, and authorizes the sale of a franchise to be exempt from specified requirements if the franchisor meets certain disclosure and notice requirements. Existing law makes it unlawful for a person to offer or sell any franchise unless the franchise has been registered or exempted pursuant to these provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 919	California SB 919 (20232024)	bill	Franchise Investment Law franchise brokers	enacted	Umberg	10	34	10	2024-01-10	2024-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/d2cf1d0e-81de-446e-84b2-97fe4c262dce	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB919	79b2a4759c8329e9f81870d37d511c308d2bd865b404b635499425509f2f8840	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 919 (20232024) — Franchise Investment Law: franchise brokers.

Existing law, the Franchise Investment Law, generally provides for the regulation of the offer and sale of franchises and requires the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation to maintain a risk-based process of reviewing franchise applications with emphasis on risks associated with the franchisor's financial condition, the franchisor's compliance record, and significant deficiencies with the franchisor's application. The law requires specific written disclosures, and authorizes the sale of a franchise to be exempt from specified requirements if the franchisor meets certain disclosure and notice requirements. Existing law makes it unlawful for a person to offer or sell any franchise unless the franchise has been registered or exempted pursuant to these provisions.

Version chain

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

1. 01/10/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/26/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/19/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/24/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB919 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/30/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 37–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB919 Umberg Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 919 Umberg Senate Third Reading By Pacheco — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Umberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-11 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2024-03-14 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
• 2024-04-03 Re-referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-04-05 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2024-04-12 Set for hearing April 23 in JUD. pending receipt.
• 2024-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 3658.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3724.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-26 Set for hearing May 6.
• 2024-05-06 May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3964.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 4149.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-06-03 Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-19 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-07 August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6547.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-28 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5560.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 518, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d2cf1d0e-81de-446e-84b2-97fe4c262dce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).