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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Special business regulations: shopping carts."
+description: "Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to impound a shopping cart that has a specified permanently affixed sign if certain conditions are satisfied, including that the city, county, or city and county provides 3-day advance actual notice of the shopping cart's discovery and location to the owner of the shopping cart or their agent, except as specified."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "SB 753"
+citation: "California SB 753 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Specialbusinessregulations", "shoppingcarts"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cortese"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-21"
+last_action: "2025-10-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/777352c5-6534-4dc1-bf57-dd6c0992243d"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB753"
+source_hash: "44930141ec883e32ae03e335b88c4eac06ce144c16e8496f8ae6b7a57928272e"
+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 753 (20252026) — Special business regulations: shopping carts.
+
+Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to impound a shopping cart that has a specified permanently affixed sign if certain conditions are satisfied, including that the city, county, or city and county provides 3-day advance actual notice of the shopping cart's discovery and location to the owner of the shopping cart or their agent, except as specified.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/21/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB753&version=20250SB75399INT)
+2. **03/24/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB753&version=20250SB75398AMD)
+3. **07/17/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB753&version=20250SB75397AMD)
+4. **09/04/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB753&version=20250SB75396AMD)
+5. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB753&version=20250SB75394CHP)
+6. **SB753** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB753)
+7. **09/18/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB753&version=20250SB75395ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Unfinished Business SB753 Cortese Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 753 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Carrillo — **71–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cortese — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-21** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
+- **2025-02-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
+- **2025-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-12** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** 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`
+- **2025-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Set for hearing May 7.
+- **2025-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1038.) (May 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-05-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1243.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-05** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-17** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 15. Page 2578.)
+- **2025-07-17** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-07-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-04** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2025-09-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 3. Page 3272.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2025-09-12** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2987.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
+- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 785, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/777352c5-6534-4dc1-bf57-dd6c0992243d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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