---
type: "Bill"
title: "Skateboard parks."
description: "Existing law prohibits an operator of a skateboard park from permitting a person to ride a skateboard at the park, unless the person is wearing a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads. Existing law provides that a skateboard facility owned or operated by a local public agency that is not supervised on a regular basis may satisfy the above requirement if it complies with certain things, including the adoption of an ordinance that requires a person riding a skateboard in the facility to wear a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads, as provided. Existing law provides that a public entity is not liable to a person who participates in a hazardous recreational activity, and that skateboarding at a facility owned or operated by a public entity as a public skateboard park is a hazardous recreational activity, if certain conditions are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1146"
citation: "California AB 1146 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Skateboard parks."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-02-27"
last_action: "2015-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f0f5f25-9eaa-4f7a-ab13-a7bc009b54ba"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1146"
source_hash: "b2b57ee3dcd663a5da9997accd09e7cf55a640302005b12e8bfc2714723bdf4b"
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 1146 (20152016) — Skateboard parks.

Existing law prohibits an operator of a skateboard park from permitting a person to ride a skateboard at the park, unless the person is wearing a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads. Existing law provides that a skateboard facility owned or operated by a local public agency that is not supervised on a regular basis may satisfy the above requirement if it complies with certain things, including the adoption of an ordinance that requires a person riding a skateboard in the facility to wear a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads, as provided. Existing law provides that a public entity is not liable to a person who participates in a hazardous recreational activity, and that skateboarding at a facility owned or operated by a public entity as a public skateboard park is a hazardous recreational activity, if certain conditions are met.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1146&version=20150AB114699INT)
2. **04/08/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1146&version=20150AB114698AMD)
3. **04/16/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1146&version=20150AB114697AMD)
4. **06/08/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1146&version=20150AB114696AMD)
5. **07/06/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1146&version=20150AB114695AMD)
6. **08/17/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1146&version=20150AB114693CHP)
7. **AB1146** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1146)
8. **07/21/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1146&version=20150AB114694ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1146 Jones By Anderson — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1146 JONES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1146 JONES Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)
- Anderson — principal coauthor (person)
- Harper — coauthor (person)
- Olsen — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2015-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-19** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 14). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1216.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-07-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 30). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-07-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1902.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-07-16** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2418.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2015-08-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 221, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f0f5f25-9eaa-4f7a-ab13-a7bc009b54ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).