---
type: "Bill"
title: "Theft: online marketplaces: reporting."
description: "Existing law requires a marketplace, as defined, to ensure that its terms and conditions regarding commercial relationships with marketplace sellers meet certain criteria, including that they are drafted in plain and intelligible language."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1700"
citation: "California AB 1700 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Theft: online marketplaces: reporting."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-01-25"
last_action: "2022-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9be20d37-5fb1-43cb-ba72-c52755bb1c73"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1700"
source_hash: "d14156f02247cfaf9c5696bc0f4f2f0175b4d40b229358045fa0a6cd8df8a68b"
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 1700 (20212022) — Theft: online marketplaces: reporting.

Existing law requires a marketplace, as defined, to ensure that its terms and conditions regarding commercial relationships with marketplace sellers meet certain criteria, including that they are drafted in plain and intelligible language.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/25/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1700&version=20210AB170099INT)
2. **06/23/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1700&version=20210AB170098AMD)
3. **09/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1700&version=20210AB170096CHP)
4. **AB1700** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1700)
5. **09/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1700&version=20210AB170097ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1700 Maienschein By Umberg — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1700 Maienschein Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1700 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maienschein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-01-26** From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
- **2022-02-03** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-08** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 21). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-23** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-02** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5229.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2022-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 855, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9be20d37-5fb1-43cb-ba72-c52755bb1c73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).