---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterans: protections."
description: "Existing law establishes a statutory cause of action for unfair competition, including any unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue, or misleading advertising. Existing law requires a person who engages or proposes to engage in unfair competition to be liable for a civil penalty of not more than $2,500, per violation, which is assessed and recovered in an action brought by certain public officials, including the Attorney General."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 1311"
citation: "California SB 1311 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Veterans: protections."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eggman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 31
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2083a142-52bf-42cf-8424-b9a47c25a448"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1311"
source_hash: "32b87e13da3736e5a21cc692e6cc572c235341f244d8010e04d8632db19b454e"
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 1311 (20212022) — Veterans: protections.

Existing law establishes a statutory cause of action for unfair competition, including any unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue, or misleading advertising. Existing law requires a person who engages or proposes to engage in unfair competition to be liable for a civil penalty of not more than $2,500, per violation, which is assessed and recovered in an action brought by certain public officials, including the Attorney General.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1311&version=20210SB131199INT)
2. **04/28/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1311&version=20210SB131198AMD)
3. **05/19/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1311&version=20210SB131197AMD)
4. **06/16/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1311&version=20210SB131196AMD)
5. **09/27/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1311&version=20210SB131194CHP)
6. **SB1311** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1311)
7. **08/26/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1311&version=20210SB131195ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB1311 Eggman et al. Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1311 Eggman Senate Third Reading By Irwin — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent SB1311 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Military and Veterans Affairs] — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eggman — primary (person)
- Atkins — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-18** Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
- **2022-02-22** From printer.
- **2022-03-02** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-25** Set for hearing April 19.
- **2022-04-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3437.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-22** Set for hearing April 26.
- **2022-04-27** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3516.) (April 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-28** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-06** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2022-05-16** May 16 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2022-05-17** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3792.) (May 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-24** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2022-05-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3987.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-27** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-09** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and M. & V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-03** August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 5940.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-24** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5077.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2022-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 620, 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/2083a142-52bf-42cf-8424-b9a47c25a448`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).