republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-537.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business and finance."
description: "(1) Existing law provides for the regulation of specified financial institutions pursuant to the Financial Institutions Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 537"
citation: "California SB 537 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business and finance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2013-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/779cf523-67ca-4bd6-a9d7-9f4a08933e96"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB537"
source_hash: "140b2f942186f8d57443c38b79d9841a27959b13775660812f1da279c8d34530"
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 SB 537 (20132014) — Business and finance.

(1) Existing law provides for the regulation of specified financial institutions pursuant to the Financial Institutions Law.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB537&version=20130SB53799INT)
2. **04/01/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB537&version=20130SB53798AMD)
3. **05/16/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB537&version=20130SB53797AMD)
4. **08/12/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB537&version=20130SB53796AMD)
5. **09/23/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB537&version=20130SB53794CHP)
6. **SB537** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB537)
7. **08/27/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB537&version=20130SB53795ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations to Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB537 Committee on B. & F.I. (Correa) Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd SB537 Committee on B. & F.I. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 537 B.&.F.I. Senate Third Reading By DICKINSON — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Banking and Financial Institutions — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2013-02-23** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
- **2013-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-11** Referred to Com. on B. & F.I. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-12** Set for hearing April 3.
- **2013-04-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 404.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-05** Set for hearing April 15.
- **2013-04-15** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2013-04-16** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 579.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-18** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** Referred to Com. on B. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-07-03** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-08** From consent calendar.
- **2013-08-08** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-08-12** Read third time and amended. (Page 2512.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-12** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-08-19** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2603.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-19** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2013-08-26** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1971.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2013-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 334, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/779cf523-67ca-4bd6-a9d7-9f4a08933e96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).