republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/19992000/ab-1819.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elder abuse."
description: "Elder abuse."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1819"
citation: "California AB 1819 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elder abuse."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shelley"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2000-02-03"
last_action: "2000-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00f40566-b77c-4829-93f0-0b2f9bbf3080"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1819"
source_hash: "ea2d68be66774ed802a893dd67e80b8289abcaba03c88cfc6f5015b9cabd4b85"
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 1819 (19992000) — Elder abuse.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/03/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1819&version=19990AB181999INT)
2. **03/23/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1819&version=19990AB181998AMD)
3. **04/25/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1819&version=19990AB181997AMD)
4. **05/26/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1819&version=19990AB181996AMD)
5. **06/27/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1819&version=19990AB181995AMD)
6. **08/29/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1819&version=19990AB181994AMD)
7. **09/20/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1819&version=19990AB181992CHP)
8. **AB1819** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1819)
9. **08/31/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1819&version=19990AB181993ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Aging and Long Term Care. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1819 Shelley By Vasconcellos — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1819 SHELLEY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1819 SHELLEY THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Shelley — primary (person)
- Alarcon — coauthor (person)
- Alpert — coauthor (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Bowen — coauthor (person)
- Cardoza — coauthor (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Cunneen — coauthor (person)
- Davis — coauthor (person)
- Dunn — coauthor (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Havice — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Honda — coauthor (person)
- Karnette — coauthor (person)
- Keeley — coauthor (person)
- Knox — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Leach — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Machado — coauthor (person)
- Mazzoni — coauthor (person)
- McPherson — coauthor (person)
- Ortiz — coauthor (person)
- Scott — coauthor (person)
- Solis — coauthor (person)
- Soto — coauthor (person)
- Speier — principal coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)
- Washington — principal coauthor (person)
- Zettel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 559, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-14** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2000-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 8845.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2000-08-30** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 2. Page 6318.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-29** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2000-08-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-22** Joint Rule 61(b)(14) suspended.
- **2000-08-07** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2000-06-28** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-27** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-26** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Safety (Ayes 7. Noes 1.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-13** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary and Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2000-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-31** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6908.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 24). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2000-04-27** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2000-04-25** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-04-24** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 11). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2000-03-29** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Aging and Long Term Care Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-03-27** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2000-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Safety Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-02-28** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety and Standing Committee on Aging and Long Term Care. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
- **2000-02-03** 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/00f40566-b77c-4829-93f0-0b2f9bbf3080`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).