---
type: "Bill"
title: "Disability access."
description: "(1) Existing law prohibits discrimination on the basis of various specified personal characteristics, including disability. The Construction-Related Accessibility Standards Compliance Act establishes standards for making new construction and existing facilities accessible to persons with disabilities and provides for construction-related accessibility claims for violations of those standards. Existing law specifies that a violation of construction-related accessibility standards personally encountered by a plaintiff may be sufficient to cause a denial of full and equal access if the plaintiff experienced difficulty, discomfort, or embarrassment because of the violation. Under existing law, a defendant is liable for actual damages plus minimum statutory damages for each instance of discrimination relating to a construction-related accessibility standard."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 269"
citation: "California SB 269 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disability access."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roth"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-19"
last_action: "2016-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4279f977-6056-4c69-8f55-c91ac5a38dfb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269"
source_hash: "8b12fb4810200d566de195c1f808e8da34dda3cdc853894eb614a00ac4405a39"
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 269 (20152016) — Disability access.

(1) Existing law prohibits discrimination on the basis of various specified personal characteristics, including disability. The Construction-Related Accessibility Standards Compliance Act establishes standards for making new construction and existing facilities accessible to persons with disabilities and provides for construction-related accessibility claims for violations of those standards. Existing law specifies that a violation of construction-related accessibility standards personally encountered by a plaintiff may be sufficient to cause a denial of full and equal access if the plaintiff experienced difficulty, discomfort, or embarrassment because of the violation. Under existing law, a defendant is liable for actual damages plus minimum statutory damages for each instance of discrimination relating to a construction-related accessibility standard.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269&version=20150SB26999INT)
2. **01/11/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269&version=20150SB26997AMD)
3. **01/25/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269&version=20150SB26996AMD)
4. **04/06/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269&version=20150SB26998AMD)
5. **05/10/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269&version=20150SB26994CHP)
6. **SB269** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269)
7. **04/26/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB269&version=20150SB26995ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 269 Roth Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB269 Roth Urgency Clause Concurrence — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roth — primary (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Eggman — coauthor (person)
- Galgiani — principal coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Linder — coauthor (person)
- Moorlach — coauthor (person)
- Morrell — coauthor (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
- Olsen — coauthor (person)
- O’Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Vidak — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-19** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2015-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2015-03-05** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-02** Set for hearing April 14.
- **2015-04-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 619.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-15** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2015-04-15** Ordered to second reading.
- **2015-04-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 742.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-09** June 16 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-01-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-01-21** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-01-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-14** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-21** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4465.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-21** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-04-25** Urgency clause adopted.
- **2016-04-25** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3661.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-05-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-05-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 13, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4279f977-6056-4c69-8f55-c91ac5a38dfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).