---
type: "Bill"
title: "Civil liability: donated fire protection equipment."
description: "Civil liability: donated fire protection equipment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1821"
citation: "California AB 1821 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil liability: donated fire protection equipment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowenthal"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2002-01-17"
last_action: "2002-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c0e0703-a4a6-4d0e-a4b9-2e313e43096a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1821"
source_hash: "466e1a069feb95966373d0252fbe40341e8a1acb66f0588fc9867f6c90808594"
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 1821 (20012002) — Civil liability: donated fire protection equipment.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/17/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1821&version=20010AB182199INT)
2. **03/07/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1821&version=20010AB182198AMD)
3. **04/08/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1821&version=20010AB182197AMD)
4. **04/22/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1821&version=20010AB182196AMD)
5. **06/26/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1821&version=20010AB182195AMD)
6. **08/05/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1821&version=20010AB182194AMD)
7. **09/06/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1821&version=20010AB182192CHP)
8. **AB1821** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1821)
9. **08/20/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1821&version=20010AB182193ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1821 Lowenthal — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1821 Lowenthal Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1821 Lowenthal Special Consent Calendar 2nd Day — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lowenthal — primary (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Aroner — coauthor (person)
- Ashburn — coauthor (person)
- Briggs — coauthor (person)
- Chavez — coauthor (person)
- Cohn — coauthor (person)
- Dickerson — coauthor (person)
- Harman — coauthor (person)
- Hollingsworth — coauthor (person)
- Liu — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Pescetti — coauthor (person)
- Salinas — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Wyman — coauthor (person)
- Zettel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 388, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-08-27** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2002-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 7836.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2002-08-14** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5443.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-08** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-08-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-07-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2002-05-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-04-25** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5720.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-04-23** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-04-22** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-04-18** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 16). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-09** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-03-11** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2002-03-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-01-28** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2002-01-18** From printer. May be heard in committee February 17.
- **2002-01-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c0e0703-a4a6-4d0e-a4b9-2e313e43096a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).