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Bill	Torts: personal liability immunity.	Existing law provides that any person who in good faith, and not for compensation, renders emergency medical care at the scene of an emergency shall not be liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or omission.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 83	California AB 83 (20092010)	bill	Torts: personal liability immunity.	enacted	Feuer	9	27	5	2008-12-23	2009-08-06	openstates	ocd-bill/536a4916-b5e3-478a-a6f8-54b0f447fd18	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB83	09b8e4828f35e98a9d8d9a286e4a51f23ff67b9dd615e905e0253c31c74fd5cd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 83 (20092010) — Torts: personal liability immunity.

Existing law provides that any person who in good faith, and not for compensation, renders emergency medical care at the scene of an emergency shall not be liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or omission.

Version chain

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

1. 12/23/08 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/05/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/26/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/05/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/06/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/15/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/06/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB83 (committee substitute) — source
9. 06/26/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent #9 AB83 Feuer By Benoit — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 83 FEUER Third Reading Urgency — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 83 FEUER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Feuer — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Benoit — principal coauthor (person)
• Blakeslee — coauthor (person)
• Brownley — coauthor (person)
• DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
• Eng — coauthor (person)
• Evans — coauthor (person)
• Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Fuentes — coauthor (person)
• Harman — coauthor (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Huffman — coauthor (person)
• John A. Perez — coauthor (person)
• Jones — coauthor (person)
• Knight — coauthor (person)
• Lieu — coauthor (person)
• Ma — coauthor (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)
• Tran — coauthor (person)
• Yamada — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2008-12-23 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2008-12-24 From printer. May be heard in committee January 23.
• 2009-01-05 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-02-05 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-02-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-02-06 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-02-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-03-02 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-03-04 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 3). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-03-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-03-09 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-03-12 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 556.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-03-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-04-30 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-05-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-06-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 9). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-15 Read second time, amended, and to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-16 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-06-22 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1377.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-06-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2262.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-06-30 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2009-07-01 Withdrawn from Governor.
• 2009-07-01 Ordered returned to enrollment.
• 2009-07-30 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2009-08-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-08-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 77, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/536a4916-b5e3-478a-a6f8-54b0f447fd18. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).