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Bill	Civil law: privacy: entry and exit of facilities.	Existing law provides that a person is liable for physical invasion of privacy when the defendant knowingly enters onto the land of another person without permission or otherwise commits a trespass in order to physically invade the privacy of the plaintiff with the intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of the plaintiff engaging in a personal or familial activity and the physical invasion occurs in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1256	California AB 1256 (20132014)	bill	Civil law: privacy: entry and exit of facilities.	enacted	Bloom	10	34	8	2013-02-22	2014-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/b6775dae-9cfc-49ab-8eaa-9fb726ebdc69	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1256	32b5cc2083c71bfe6710a7c1cb8cc80f20bb3970a4197a9787a30801ac3e8bb3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1256 (20132014) — Civil law: privacy: entry and exit of facilities.

Existing law provides that a person is liable for physical invasion of privacy when the defendant knowingly enters onto the land of another person without permission or otherwise commits a trespass in order to physically invade the privacy of the plaintiff with the intent to capture any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of the plaintiff engaging in a personal or familial activity and the physical invasion occurs in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/06/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/15/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/21/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/27/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/24/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/30/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1256 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/04/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1256 Bloom By Evans — 24–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 1256 BLOOM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 58–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1256 BLOOM Assembly Third Reading — 53–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bloom — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-21 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-04-16 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-04-23 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-04-30 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-01-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-01-07 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-01-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (January 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-01-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-01-16 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-01-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (January 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-01-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 19. Page 3721.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-01-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-02-06 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-05-27 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, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-06-24 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-04 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2014-08-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 11. Page 4900.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 24. Page 6646.)
• 2014-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 19. Page 6653.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 852, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b6775dae-9cfc-49ab-8eaa-9fb726ebdc69. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).