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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Disability access."
+description: "(1) Existing law prohibits discrimination on the basis of various specified personal characteristics, including disability. The Construction-Related Accessibility Standards Compliance Act establishes standards for making new construction and existing facilities accessible to persons with disabilities and provides for construction-related accessibility claims for violations of those standards. Existing law specifies that a violation of construction-related accessibility standards personally encountered by a plaintiff may be sufficient to cause a denial of full and equal access if the plaintiff experienced difficulty, discomfort, or embarrassment because of the violation. Under existing law, a defendant is liable for actual damages plus minimum statutory damages for each instance of discrimination relating to a construction-related accessibility standard."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "SB 269"
+citation: "California SB 269 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Disability access."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Roth"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2015-02-19"
+last_action: "2016-05-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4279f977-6056-4c69-8f55-c91ac5a38dfb"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269"
+source_hash: "8b12fb4810200d566de195c1f808e8da34dda3cdc853894eb614a00ac4405a39"
+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 269 (20152016) — Disability access.
+
+(1) Existing law prohibits discrimination on the basis of various specified personal characteristics, including disability. The Construction-Related Accessibility Standards Compliance Act establishes standards for making new construction and existing facilities accessible to persons with disabilities and provides for construction-related accessibility claims for violations of those standards. Existing law specifies that a violation of construction-related accessibility standards personally encountered by a plaintiff may be sufficient to cause a denial of full and equal access if the plaintiff experienced difficulty, discomfort, or embarrassment because of the violation. Under existing law, a defendant is liable for actual damages plus minimum statutory damages for each instance of discrimination relating to a construction-related accessibility standard.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/19/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269&version=20150SB26999INT)
+2. **01/11/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269&version=20150SB26997AMD)
+3. **01/25/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269&version=20150SB26996AMD)
+4. **04/06/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269&version=20150SB26998AMD)
+5. **05/10/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269&version=20150SB26994CHP)
+6. **SB269** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269)
+7. **04/26/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269&version=20150SB26995ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 269 Roth Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Unfinished Business SB269 Roth Urgency Clause Concurrence — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Roth — primary (person)
+- Anderson — coauthor (person)
+- Cooper — coauthor (person)
+- Eggman — coauthor (person)
+- Galgiani — principal coauthor (person)
+- Gray — coauthor (person)
+- Linder — coauthor (person)
+- Moorlach — coauthor (person)
+- Morrell — coauthor (person)
+- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
+- Olsen — coauthor (person)
+- O’Donnell — coauthor (person)
+- Vidak — author (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-19** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2015-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
+- **2015-03-05** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-02** Set for hearing April 14.
+- **2015-04-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 619.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-04-15** Withdrawn from committee.
+- **2015-04-15** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2015-04-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 742.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2015-05-14** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-06-09** June 16 hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2016-01-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-01-21** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-01-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2016-04-14** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-04-21** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4465.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-04-21** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2016-04-25** Urgency clause adopted.
+- **2016-04-25** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3661.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-04-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2016-05-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2016-05-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 13, Statutes of 2016.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4279f977-6056-4c69-8f55-c91ac5a38dfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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