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Bill Disability access. (1) Existing law prohibits discrimination on the basis of various specified personal characteristics, including disability. The Construction-Related Accessibility Standards Compliance Act establishes standards for making new construction and existing facilities accessible to persons with disabilities and provides for construction-related accessibility claims for violations of those standards. Existing law specifies that a violation of construction-related accessibility standards personally encountered by a plaintiff may be sufficient to cause a denial of full and equal access if the plaintiff experienced difficulty, discomfort, or embarrassment because of the violation. Under existing law, a defendant is liable for actual damages plus minimum statutory damages for each instance of discrimination relating to a construction-related accessibility standard. us/states/ca California Legislature 20152016 SB 269 California SB 269 (20152016)
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California SB 269 (20152016) — Disability access.

(1) Existing law prohibits discrimination on the basis of various specified personal characteristics, including disability. The Construction-Related Accessibility Standards Compliance Act establishes standards for making new construction and existing facilities accessible to persons with disabilities and provides for construction-related accessibility claims for violations of those standards. Existing law specifies that a violation of construction-related accessibility standards personally encountered by a plaintiff may be sufficient to cause a denial of full and equal access if the plaintiff experienced difficulty, discomfort, or embarrassment because of the violation. Under existing law, a defendant is liable for actual damages plus minimum statutory damages for each instance of discrimination relating to a construction-related accessibility standard.

Version chain

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

  1. 02/19/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 01/11/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  3. 01/25/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  4. 04/06/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  5. 05/10/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  6. SB269 (committee substitute) — source
  7. 04/26/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • 3rd Reading — 370 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 200 (pass) · lower
  • SB 269 Roth Consent Calendar Second Day — 790 (pass) · lower
  • Unfinished Business SB269 Roth Urgency Clause Concurrence — 380 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 60 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 100 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Roth — primary (person)
  • Anderson — coauthor (person)
  • Cooper — coauthor (person)
  • Eggman — coauthor (person)
  • Galgiani — principal coauthor (person)
  • Gray — coauthor (person)
  • Linder — coauthor (person)
  • Moorlach — coauthor (person)
  • Morrell — coauthor (person)
  • Nielsen — coauthor (person)
  • Olsen — coauthor (person)
  • ODonnell — coauthor (person)
  • Vidak — author (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2015-02-19 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
  • 2015-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
  • 2015-03-05 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
  • 2015-04-02 Set for hearing April 14.
  • 2015-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
  • 2015-04-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 619.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
  • 2015-04-15 Withdrawn from committee.
  • 2015-04-15 Ordered to second reading.
  • 2015-04-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
  • 2015-04-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 742.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
  • 2015-04-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
  • 2015-05-14 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
  • 2015-06-09 June 16 hearing postponed by committee.
  • 2016-01-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
  • 2016-01-21 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (January 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
  • 2016-01-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
  • 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
  • 2016-04-14 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
  • 2016-04-21 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4465.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
  • 2016-04-21 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  • 2016-04-25 Urgency clause adopted.
  • 2016-04-25 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3661.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
  • 2016-04-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
  • 2016-05-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
  • 2016-05-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 13, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4279f977-6056-4c69-8f55-c91ac5a38dfb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).