Bill Text: CA AB539 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Unruh Civil Rights Act: high-frequency litigants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB539 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB539-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 539

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Introduced by Assembly Member Stephanie Nguyen

February 08, 2023

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An act to amend Section 654 of the Civil Code, relating to property.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 539, as introduced, Stephanie Nguyen. Property rights.

Existing law establishes property rights and provides that ownership of a thing is the right of one or more persons to possess and use it to the exclusion of others.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 654 of the Civil Code is amended to read:

654.

 The ownership of a thing is the right of one or more persons to possess and use it to the exclusion of others. In this Code, code, the thing of which there may be ownership is called property.