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Bill	Space flight: Space Flight Liability and Immunity Act.	Existing state law governs common carriers, including contracts for the conveyance of property, persons, or messages from one place to another.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2243	California AB 2243 (20112012)	bill	Space flight: Space Flight Liability and Immunity Act.	enacted	Knight	7	22	5	2012-02-24	2012-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/06afa97f-4388-476d-908c-1b64d2565fb1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2243	b15982defde9f26a13e9e93af9945478ed22ffecc5d06d25ea038d0aacc242d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2243 (20112012) — Space flight: Space Flight Liability and Immunity Act.

Existing state law governs common carriers, including contracts for the conveyance of property, persons, or messages from one place to another.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/07/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/07/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/21/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2243 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/06/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent #16 AB2243 Knight By Fuller — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2243 KNIGHT Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2243 KNIGHT Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Knight — primary (person)
• Conway — coauthor (person)
• Fuller — coauthor (person)
• Runner — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-05-03 From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4789.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-15 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4782.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
• 2012-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6413.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:10 p.m.
• 2012-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 416, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/06afa97f-4388-476d-908c-1b64d2565fb1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).