--- type: "Bill" title: "Skateboard parks: other wheeled recreational devices: safety and liability." 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: "20192020" identifier: "SB 1003" citation: "California SB 1003 (20192020)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Skateboard parks: other wheeled recreational devices: safety and liability."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Jones"] version_count: 5 action_count: 23 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2020-02-13" last_action: "2020-09-28" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f849cd8-071b-4c6f-926d-a56995197c4c" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1003" source_hash: "0828707e7fa4d4817654255c75b34f3dbfa812852e4bc1d1adc4c348d8f6f8fa" 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 1003 (20192020) — Skateboard parks: other wheeled recreational devices: safety and liability. 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. **02/13/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1003&version=20190SB100399INT) 2. **07/27/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1003&version=20190SB100398AMD) 3. **09/28/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1003&version=20190SB100396CHP) 4. **SB1003** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1003) 5. **09/02/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1003&version=20190SB100397ENR) ## Votes - Unfinished Business SB1003 Jones et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper - SB 1003 Jones Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower - Consent Calendar SB1003 Jones et al. Urgency Clause — **39–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Jones — primary (person) - Bates — coauthor (person) - Dahle — coauthor (person) - Hueso — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2020-02-13** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1` - **2020-02-14** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15. - **2020-02-27** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee` - **2020-03-11** Set for hearing March 24. - **2020-03-18** March 24 hearing postponed by committee. - **2020-05-12** Set for hearing May 22. - **2020-05-22** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3583.) (May 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2020-05-26** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2020-06-11** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3681.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1` - **2020-06-11** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1` - **2020-06-18** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee` - **2020-07-09** July 22 hearing postponed by committee. - **2020-07-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2020-07-27** July 30 hearing postponed by committee. - **2020-08-12** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2020-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2020-08-30** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5280.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1` - **2020-08-30** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. - **2020-08-30** Ordered to special consent calendar. - **2020-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2020-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m. - **2020-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2020-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 236, Statutes of 2020. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f849cd8-071b-4c6f-926d-a56995197c4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).