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type: "Bill"
title: "Electronic cigarettes."
description: "Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, prohibits a person from selling or otherwise furnishing tobacco products to a person under 18 years of age. Existing law permits enforcing agencies to assess various civil penalties for violations of the STAKE Act. Existing law makes it a crime to furnish tobacco products to a person under 18 years of age. Existing law also prohibits a person from selling or otherwise furnishing an electronic cigarette to a person under 18 years of age, and makes a violation punishable as an infraction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016 Special Session 2"
identifier: "SB 5"
citation: "California SB 5 (20152016 Special Session 2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electronic cigarettes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leno"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-07-16"
last_action: "2016-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76324036-e57d-4196-a0e9-6472ee70d47a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB5"
source_hash: "d0b1506321b0e4e976afa0b3d1fd0a7ae8c66a97b776fa6b0f7ec7456bd6c143"
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 SB 5 (20152016 Special Session 2) — Electronic cigarettes.
Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, prohibits a person from selling or otherwise furnishing tobacco products to a person under 18 years of age. Existing law permits enforcing agencies to assess various civil penalties for violations of the STAKE Act. Existing law makes it a crime to furnish tobacco products to a person under 18 years of age. Existing law also prohibits a person from selling or otherwise furnishing an electronic cigarette to a person under 18 years of age, and makes a violation punishable as an infraction.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **07/16/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB5&version=20152SB599INT)
2. **02/29/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB5&version=20152SB597AMD)
3. **03/02/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB5&version=20152SB596AMD)
4. **05/04/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB5&version=20152SB594CHP)
5. **08/26/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB5&version=20152SB598AMD)
6. **SB5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB5)
7. **04/19/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162SB5&version=20152SB595ENR)
## Votes
- Unfinished Business SB5 Leno Concurrence — **2611** (pass) · upper
- SB 5 Leno Senate Third Reading By BONTA — **5221** (pass) · lower
- SB 5 Leno Senate Third Reading By BONTA Motion to Appeal the Decision of the Chair By GALLAGHER — **4926** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **93** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **2513** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **52** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Leno — primary (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Hernandez — coauthor (person)
- Liu — coauthor (person)
- McGuire — coauthor (person)
- Mitchell — coauthor (person)
- Pan — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-07-16** Introduced. Read first time. Referred to Com. on P.H. & D.S. `introduction, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2015-07-16** To print.
- **2015-07-17** From printer.
- **2015-08-13** Set for hearing August 19.
- **2015-08-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3. Page 28.) (August 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-21** Set for hearing August 24.
- **2015-08-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 37.) (August 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 52.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-27** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-29** Referred to Com. on P.H. & D.S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-02-29** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P.H. & D.S. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P.H. & D.S. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-03** Assembly Rule 96 suspended.
- **2016-03-03** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-03-03** Ordered to third reading.
- **2016-03-03** Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
- **2016-03-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 25. Page 178.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-03** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-03-10** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 11.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:30 a.m.
- **2016-05-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-05-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 7, Statutes of 2015-16 Second Extraordinary Session.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/76324036-e57d-4196-a0e9-6472ee70d47a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).