Under existing law, upon the proclamation of a state of emergency resulting from an earthquake, flood, fire, riot, storm, or natural or manmade disaster declared by the President of the United States or the Governor, or upon the declaration of a local emergency resulting from an earthquake, flood, fire, riot, storm, or natural or manmade disaster by the executive officer of any county, city, or city and county, and for a period of 30 days following that declaration, it is a misdemeanor with specified penalties for a person, contractor, business, or other entity to sell or offer to sell certain goods and services for a price that exceeds by 10% the price charged by that person immediately prior to the proclamation of emergency, except as specified.
California AB 2820 (20152016) — Crimes: price gouging: states of emergency.
Under existing law, upon the proclamation of a state of emergency resulting from an earthquake, flood, fire, riot, storm, or natural or manmade disaster declared by the President of the United States or the Governor, or upon the declaration of a local emergency resulting from an earthquake, flood, fire, riot, storm, or natural or manmade disaster by the executive officer of any county, city, or city and county, and for a period of 30 days following that declaration, it is a misdemeanor with specified penalties for a person, contractor, business, or other entity to sell or offer to sell certain goods and services for a price that exceeds by 10% the price charged by that person immediately prior to the proclamation of emergency, except as specified.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Chiu — primary (person)
Wilk — principal coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
2016-03-14 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2016-03-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
2016-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2016-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 1.) (May 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2016-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 10. Page 4724.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2016-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2016-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2016-06-27 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
2016-06-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2016-08-01 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
2016-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 5286.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2016-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2016-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 11. Page 6347.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2016-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2016-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2016-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 671, Statutes of 2016.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1a3b19fc-fade-45ce-8ee4-6eef51421aaa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).