---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unfair business practices: contests and sweepstakes."
description: "Existing law generally regulates false advertising and specifically prohibits certain unfair acts or practices undertaken by, or omissions of, a person in the operation of a contest, including misrepresenting the odds of winning a prize or failing to award and distribute all prizes. A violation of this provision is a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1439"
citation: "California AB 1439 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unfair business practices: contests and sweepstakes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2014-01-06"
last_action: "2014-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76adc691-25bf-47f3-8c62-b9c31819c862"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439"
source_hash: "b451b79bab72f794d9d0e29c2b2009a4c3714df3e75e63fe78c20505844ff779"
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 1439 (20132014) — Unfair business practices: contests and sweepstakes.

Existing law generally regulates false advertising and specifically prohibits certain unfair acts or practices undertaken by, or omissions of, a person in the operation of a contest, including misrepresenting the odds of winning a prize or failing to award and distribute all prizes. A violation of this provision is a misdemeanor.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/06/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143999INT)
2. **03/20/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143998AMD)
3. **03/24/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143997AMD)
4. **06/16/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143996AMD)
5. **08/04/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143995AMD)
6. **08/21/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143994AMD)
7. **09/26/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143992CHP)
8. **AB1439** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439)
9. **08/29/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143993ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1439 Salas By Correa — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1439 SALAS Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1439 SALAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Salas — primary (person)
- Achadjian — coauthor (person)
- Bigelow — coauthor (person)
- Bocanegra — coauthor (person)
- Bonilla — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — author (person)
- Brown — coauthor (person)
- Campos — coauthor (person)
- Conway — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)
- Eggman — coauthor (person)
- Fox — coauthor (person)
- Frazier — author (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Grove — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Ian Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Lara — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Melendez — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Nestande — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
- Perea — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Roger Hernández — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- V. Manuel Pérez — coauthor (person)
- Vidak — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wilk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-01-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-01-07** From printer. May be heard in committee February 6.
- **2014-01-17** Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2014-02-03** Re-referred to Coms. on G.O. and B.,P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-24** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5197.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-06-05** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-21** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4826.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6444.)
- **2014-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6466.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 592, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/76adc691-25bf-47f3-8c62-b9c31819c862`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).