CA AB449 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session

California Assembly Bill 449

Status

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Vetoed on October 13 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2026-01-22 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Summary

An act to add Section 12931.5 to the Government Code, relating to civil rights.

Title

Civil Rights Department: antidiscrimination campaigns.

Roll Calls

2025-09-09 - Assembly - AB 449 Jackson Concurrence in Senate Amendments (Y: 64 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 11) [PASS]
2025-09-08 - Senate - Assembly 3rd Reading AB449 Jackson By Durazo (Y: 30 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 8) [PASS]
2025-08-29 - Senate - Do pass (Y: 4 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2025-07-14 - Senate - Placed on suspense file (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-07-01 - Senate - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2025-06-02 - Assembly - AB 449 Jackson Assembly Third Reading (Y: 66 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 12) [PASS]
2025-05-23 - Assembly - Do pass (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2025-03-25 - Assembly - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-01-22	Assembly	Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
2025-10-13	Assembly	Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
2025-10-13	Assembly	Vetoed by Governor.
2025-09-16		Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2025-09-09	Assembly	Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 5. Page 3106.).
2025-09-08	Assembly	In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-08	Senate	Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 2. Page 2603.).
2025-08-29	Senate	Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-29	Senate	From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (August 29).
2025-07-14	Senate	In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-07-02	Senate	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-06-19	Senate	From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD.
2025-06-11	Senate	Referred to Com. on JUD.
2025-06-03	Senate	In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-06-02	Assembly	Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 1. Page 1829.)
2025-05-27	Assembly	Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23	Assembly	From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).
2025-04-23	Assembly	In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
2025-03-26	Assembly	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-03-10	Assembly	Referred to Com. on JUD.
2025-02-07	Assembly	From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
2025-02-06	Assembly	Read first time. To print.

Code Citations

Chapter	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Government Code	12931.5	New Code	See Bill Text

California State Sources

Type	Source
Summary	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB449
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB449#99INT
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB449#98AMD
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB449#97ENR
Roll Call	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB449