---
type: "Bill"
title: "Entry doors: display of religious items: prohibitions."
description: "(1) Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential tenancies, and prohibits a landlord from interfering with a tenant's quiet enjoyment of the premises. Existing law prohibits a landlord from prohibiting a tenant from posting or displaying political signs relating to an election or legislative vote, the initiative, referendum, or recall process, or issues before a public body for a vote, except under certain circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 652"
citation: "California SB 652 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Entry doors: display of religious items: prohibitions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f67add40-f564-4d0b-b4f9-4a8684a89441"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB652"
source_hash: "b3e16eabd0c38bc3c5a36b556cf45ed377b25a3840af58eb08991c704f4003b6"
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 652 (20192020) — Entry doors: display of religious items: prohibitions.

(1) Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential tenancies, and prohibits a landlord from interfering with a tenant's quiet enjoyment of the premises. Existing law prohibits a landlord from prohibiting a tenant from posting or displaying political signs relating to an election or legislative vote, the initiative, referendum, or recall process, or issues before a public body for a vote, except under certain circumstances.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB652&version=20190SB65299INT)
2. **04/22/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB652&version=20190SB65298AMD)
3. **07/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB652&version=20190SB65296CHP)
4. **SB652** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB652)
5. **07/10/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB652&version=20190SB65297ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Housing] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar SB652 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 652 Allen Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — principal coauthor (person)
- Berman — principal coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — principal coauthor (person)
- Bloom — principal coauthor (person)
- Friedman — principal coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — principal coauthor (person)
- Glazer — author (person)
- Hertzberg — author (person)
- Jackson — author (person)
- Levine — principal coauthor (person)
- Medina — principal coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — principal coauthor (person)
- Rubio — author (person)
- Stern — author (person)
- Wiener — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HOUSING. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Set for hearing April 2.
- **2019-04-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 553.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-18** Set for hearing April 30.
- **2019-04-22** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 891.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 964.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-07** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-02** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2574.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-08** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2019-07-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2019-07-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 154, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f67add40-f564-4d0b-b4f9-4a8684a89441`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).