---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ticket sellers: equitable ticket buying process: sale or use of circumventing software."
description: "Existing law provides that a person who intentionally uses or sells software to circumvent a security control or measure on a ticket seller's Internet Web site that is used to ensure an equitable ticket buying process is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law also provides that a violation of the laws regulating ticket sellers is a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1832"
citation: "California AB 1832 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ticket sellers: equitable ticket buying process: sale or use of circumventing software."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ian Calderon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-18"
last_action: "2014-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0172efbb-94e7-4961-a862-c389376b2763"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1832"
source_hash: "c541f9ae13a0fdbae7cde8f7546525cbdfd07ca64441b0a2f37af2df737acd94"
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 1832 (20132014) — Ticket sellers: equitable ticket buying process: sale or use of circumventing software.

Existing law provides that a person who intentionally uses or sells software to circumvent a security control or measure on a ticket seller's Internet Web site that is used to ensure an equitable ticket buying process is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law also provides that a violation of the laws regulating ticket sellers is a misdemeanor.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1832&version=20130AB183299INT)
2. **04/10/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1832&version=20130AB183298AMD)
3. **07/21/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1832&version=20130AB183296CHP)
4. **AB1832** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1832)
5. **07/09/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1832&version=20130AB183297ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1832 CALDERON Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection to Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **16–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1832 Ian Calderon — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ian Calderon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2014-02-27** Referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. and B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4836.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-08** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-22** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-05** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-30** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2014-07-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-07-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4253.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-07-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2014-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-07-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-07-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 158, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0172efbb-94e7-4961-a862-c389376b2763`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).