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Bill	Unmanned aircraft systems.	(1) Existing law provides certain individuals with immunity from civil liability under specific circumstances, including, among others, limiting the civil liability of a person who in good faith, and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmedical care at the scene of an emergency, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 807	California SB 807 (20152016)	bill	Unmanned aircraft systems.	enacted	Gaines	8	29	7	2016-01-04	2016-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/89413262-fe5b-41ab-8b93-b16e59a04fad	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB807	e4de6e2e64fb5f5e54fb9baa83ebfd04ad1d4274a117a166aa76a4d467b3c9d8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 807 (20152016) — Unmanned aircraft systems.

(1) Existing law provides certain individuals with immunity from civil liability under specific circumstances, including, among others, limiting the civil liability of a person who in good faith, and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmedical care at the scene of an emergency, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/04/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB807 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 807 Gaines Senate Third Reading By GATTO — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gaines — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Baker — coauthor (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Berryhill — coauthor (person)
• Brough — coauthor (person)
• Cannella — coauthor (person)
• Chang — coauthor (person)
• Cooley — coauthor (person)
• Fuller — coauthor (person)
• Gatto — principal coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Obernolte — coauthor (person)
• Roth — coauthor (person)
• Steinorth — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-04 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-01-05 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 4.
• 2016-01-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-03-17 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
• 2016-03-17 Set for hearing March 29.
• 2016-03-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3335.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-01 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2016-04-11 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2016-04-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3774.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-05 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-03 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2016-08-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-18 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6021.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-24 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2016-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5496.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2016-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 834, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/89413262-fe5b-41ab-8b93-b16e59a04fad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).