---
type: "Bill"
title: "Civil rights: causes of action: enforcement."
description: "Civil rights: causes of action: enforcement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 2719"
citation: "California AB 2719 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil rights: causes of action: enforcement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wesson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2000-02-25"
last_action: "2000-07-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f5baf31-259c-40c6-91be-52de06702c18"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2719"
source_hash: "e9eaab8adac210aae9b83880dc2f94eaf28222c1d522c8b4a3d57081370ad04a"
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 AB 2719 (19992000) — Civil rights: causes of action: enforcement.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2719&version=19990AB271999INT)
2. **07/07/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2719&version=19990AB271997CHP)
3. **AB2719** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2719)
4. **06/22/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2719&version=19990AB271998ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2719 Wesson By Sher — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2719 WESSON THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wesson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-07-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 98, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-07-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-06-29** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
- **2000-06-22** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2000-06-22** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 5230.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-06-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-06-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-05-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-15** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 21. Page 6358.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-03-16** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-28** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2000-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2000-02-25** Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f5baf31-259c-40c6-91be-52de06702c18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).