---
type: "Bill"
title: "Flavored tobacco products."
description: "Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, prohibits a person from selling or otherwise furnishing tobacco products, as defined, to a person under 21 years of age. Existing law also prohibits the use of tobacco products in county offices of education, on charter school or school district property, or near a playground or youth sports event, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 793"
citation: "California SB 793 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Flavored tobacco products."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-08-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce04bd24-244a-41aa-a7ea-3ac6c0b9777d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB793"
source_hash: "84a163c7399569babf03518be869c4d96b5020363c1abfe1c9948c89ee7364c1"
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 793 (20192020) — Flavored tobacco products.

Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, prohibits a person from selling or otherwise furnishing tobacco products, as defined, to a person under 21 years of age. Existing law also prohibits the use of tobacco products in county offices of education, on charter school or school district property, or near a playground or youth sports event, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/06/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB793&version=20190SB79399INT)
2. **05/05/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB793&version=20190SB79398AMD)
3. **06/18/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB793&version=20190SB79397AMD)
4. **07/27/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB793&version=20190SB79396AMD)
5. **08/10/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB793&version=20190SB79395AMD)
6. **08/28/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB793&version=20190SB79393CHP)
7. **SB793** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB793)
8. **08/28/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB793&version=20190SB79394ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB793 Hill et al. Concurrence — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **13–3** (pass) · lower
- SB 793 Hill Senate Third Reading By WOOD — **58–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB793 Hill et al. — **33–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — principal coauthor (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Berman — principal coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — principal coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Chau — coauthor (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Chu — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- Durazo — principal coauthor (person)
- Eggman — coauthor (person)
- Frazier — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Glazer — author (person)
- Gloria — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — principal coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Leyva — coauthor (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stone — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — author (person)
- McGuire — author (person)
- Monning — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — principal coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Pan — author (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — principal coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — principal coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — author (person)
- Smith — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — author (person)
- Wood — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-07** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 6.
- **2020-01-15** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-06** Set for hearing April 1.
- **2020-03-17** April 1 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-05-05** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Set for hearing May 13.
- **2020-05-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 3533.) (May 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-26** Set for hearing June 1.
- **2020-06-02** Hearing rescheduled due to Capitol closure.
- **2020-06-03** Set for hearing June 9.
- **2020-06-09** June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2020-06-11** Set for hearing June 18.
- **2020-06-18** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3765.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 4. Page 3846.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-29** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-06** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (August 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-08-10** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-18** August 18 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2020-08-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (August 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-08-21** Coauthors revised.
- **2020-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 16. Page 5167.)
- **2020-08-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 1. Page 5168.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-24** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2020-08-28** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4386.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-08-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:45 p.m.
- **2020-08-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-08-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 34, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce04bd24-244a-41aa-a7ea-3ac6c0b9777d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).