---
type: "Bill"
title: "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 2300"
citation: "California AB 2300 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Youth Football Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cooper"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-14"
last_action: "2020-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/460e7f88-d9f7-4816-a593-771adb481cc1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2300"
source_hash: "1dd004ecefd9fb8adc47ab3944297f8efc717d35c98afa2d3936bbd7dfd7bbfb"
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 2300 (20192020) — 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. **02/14/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2300&version=20190AB230099INT)
2. **05/18/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2300&version=20190AB230098AMD)
3. **09/09/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2300&version=20190AB230096CHP)
4. **AB2300** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2300)
5. **08/31/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2300&version=20190AB230097ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2300 Cooper Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2300 — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cooper — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2020-02-24** Referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 14). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4677.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-23** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-08-03** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4374.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2020-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2020-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 49, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/460e7f88-d9f7-4816-a593-771adb481cc1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).