republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-819.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Intellectual property piracy."
description: "Existing law makes it a crime for a person to willfully manufacture, intentionally sell, or knowingly possess for sale any counterfeit mark registered with the Secretary of State or registered on the Principal Register of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Existing law imposes specified imprisonment and fines based upon the number of counterfeit marks involved in the offense and if the person is an individual or a business entity. Existing law also specifies certain imprisonment and fines for a subsequent conviction of this offense and provides other specified penalties if the conduct that was the basis of the conviction has directly and foreseeably caused death or great bodily injury to another through reliance on the counterfeited item for its intended purpose."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 819"
citation: "California AB 819 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Intellectual property piracy."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles Calderon"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2009-02-26"
last_action: "2010-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c43c5d9e-1638-4317-8002-461d5e0f7e92"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819"
source_hash: "14e153713b50dd86bc6fb5a8a29c89a2f83b25775cb5692f733f6839c626c39c"
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 819 (20092010) — Intellectual property piracy.

Existing law makes it a crime for a person to willfully manufacture, intentionally sell, or knowingly possess for sale any counterfeit mark registered with the Secretary of State or registered on the Principal Register of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Existing law imposes specified imprisonment and fines based upon the number of counterfeit marks involved in the offense and if the person is an individual or a business entity. Existing law also specifies certain imprisonment and fines for a subsequent conviction of this offense and provides other specified penalties if the conduct that was the basis of the conviction has directly and foreseeably caused death or great bodily injury to another through reliance on the counterfeited item for its intended purpose.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819&version=20090AB81999INT)
2. **04/15/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819&version=20090AB81998AMD)
3. **05/06/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819&version=20090AB81997AMD)
4. **06/01/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819&version=20090AB81996AMD)
5. **06/22/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819&version=20090AB81994AMD)
6. **07/09/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819&version=20090AB81995AMD)
7. **07/15/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819&version=20090AB81993AMD)
8. **08/03/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819&version=20090AB81992AMD)
9. **08/12/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819&version=20090AB81991AMD)
10. **09/27/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819&version=20090AB81989CHP)
11. **AB819** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819)
12. **08/24/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB819&version=20090AB81990ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 819 CALDERON Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB819 Charles Calderon Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 819 CALDERON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Charles Calderon — primary (person)
- Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
- Jones — coauthor (person)
- Lieu — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Smyth — coauthor (person)
- Tran — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **2009-03-23** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-04-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-21** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-04-28** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-07** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-05-20** In committee: Set, second hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1960.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-18** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2009-07-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-07-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-07-14** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2010-06-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-07-15** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-07-15** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-12** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-16** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-18** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4581.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-19** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6373.)
- **2010-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6377.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2010-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 351, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c43c5d9e-1638-4317-8002-461d5e0f7e92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).