---
type: "Bill"
title: "Youth athletics: California Youth Football Act."
description: "Under existing law, a school district, charter school, or private school that elects to offer an athletic program is prohibited from allowing a high school or middle school football team to conduct more than 2 full-contact practices, as defined, per week during the preseason and regular season, as defined, and from conducting a full-contact practice during the off-season."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1"
citation: "California AB 1 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Youth athletics: California Youth Football Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cooper"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-12-03"
last_action: "2019-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e0a9fde-4459-4d85-92fe-d14c4bfae3a9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1"
source_hash: "3958a11dd1c3c31f6d1821f822aa5ef81b87ca4536a1e1352706342f6e4261dc"
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 1 (20192020) — Youth athletics: California Youth Football Act.

Under existing law, a school district, charter school, or private school that elects to offer an athletic program is prohibited from allowing a high school or middle school football team to conduct more than 2 full-contact practices, as defined, per week during the preseason and regular season, as defined, and from conducting a full-contact practice during the off-season.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/03/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1&version=20190AB199INT)
2. **04/10/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1&version=20190AB198AMD)
3. **07/31/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1&version=20190AB196CHP)
4. **AB1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1)
5. **07/12/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1&version=20190AB197ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent AB1 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1 Cooper Assembly Third Reading — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cooper — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-12-04** From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
- **2019-01-17** Referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 1570.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-07-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-03** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2019-07-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2057.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-07-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2019-07-31** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-31** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 158, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e0a9fde-4459-4d85-92fe-d14c4bfae3a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).