---
type: "Bill"
title: "Space flight: Space Flight Liability and Immunity Act."
description: "Existing state law governs common carriers, including contracts for the conveyance of property, persons, or messages from one place to another."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 2243"
citation: "California AB 2243 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Space flight: Space Flight Liability and Immunity Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Knight"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-02-24"
last_action: "2012-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06afa97f-4388-476d-908c-1b64d2565fb1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2243"
source_hash: "b15982defde9f26a13e9e93af9945478ed22ffecc5d06d25ea038d0aacc242d6"
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 2243 (20112012) — Space flight: Space Flight Liability and Immunity Act.

Existing state law governs common carriers, including contracts for the conveyance of property, persons, or messages from one place to another.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2243&version=20110AB224399INT)
2. **03/29/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2243&version=20110AB224398AMD)
3. **05/07/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2243&version=20110AB224397AMD)
4. **08/07/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2243&version=20110AB224396AMD)
5. **09/21/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2243&version=20110AB224394CHP)
6. **AB2243** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2243)
7. **09/06/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2243&version=20110AB224395ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #16 AB2243 Knight By Fuller — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2243 KNIGHT Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2243 KNIGHT Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Knight — primary (person)
- Conway — coauthor (person)
- Fuller — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-24** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2012-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2012-02-27** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2012-03-29** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-03** From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4789.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-24** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-15** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2012-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4782.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
- **2012-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6413.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:10 p.m.
- **2012-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 416, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/06afa97f-4388-476d-908c-1b64d2565fb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).