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Bill	Unfair business practices: contests and sweepstakes.	Existing law generally regulates false advertising and specifically prohibits certain unfair acts or practices undertaken by, or omissions of, a person in the operation of a contest, including misrepresenting the odds of winning a prize or failing to award and distribute all prizes. A violation of this provision is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1439	California AB 1439 (20132014)	bill	Unfair business practices: contests and sweepstakes.	enacted	Salas	9	30	7	2014-01-06	2014-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/76adc691-25bf-47f3-8c62-b9c31819c862	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439	b451b79bab72f794d9d0e29c2b2009a4c3714df3e75e63fe78c20505844ff779	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1439 (20132014) — Unfair business practices: contests and sweepstakes.

Existing law generally regulates false advertising and specifically prohibits certain unfair acts or practices undertaken by, or omissions of, a person in the operation of a contest, including misrepresenting the odds of winning a prize or failing to award and distribute all prizes. A violation of this provision is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 01/06/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/24/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/16/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/04/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/26/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1439 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/29/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1439 Salas By Correa — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1439 SALAS Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1439 SALAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Salas — primary (person)
• Achadjian — coauthor (person)
• Bigelow — coauthor (person)
• Bocanegra — coauthor (person)
• Bonilla — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — author (person)
• Brown — coauthor (person)
• Campos — coauthor (person)
• Conway — coauthor (person)
• Cooley — coauthor (person)
• Daly — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Fox — coauthor (person)
• Frazier — author (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Gray — coauthor (person)
• Grove — coauthor (person)
• Holden — coauthor (person)
• Ian Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
• Lara — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Medina — coauthor (person)
• Melendez — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Nestande — coauthor (person)
• Pavley — coauthor (person)
• Perea — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Rendon — coauthor (person)
• Roger Hernández — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• V. Manuel Pérez — coauthor (person)
• Vidak — coauthor (person)
• Waldron — coauthor (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-01-07 From printer. May be heard in committee February 6.
• 2014-01-17 Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-02-03 Re-referred to Coms. on G.O. and B.,P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2014-03-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-03-24 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2014-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2014-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-05-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2014-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5197.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2014-06-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-08-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-04 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2014-08-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4826.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-26 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6444.)
• 2014-08-26 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6466.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 592, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/76adc691-25bf-47f3-8c62-b9c31819c862. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).