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Bill	Tobacco: youth sports events.	Existing law prohibits the smoking of a cigarette, cigar, or other tobacco product, and the disposal of tobacco-related waste, within 25 feet of any playground or tot lot sandbox area, as defined. Existing law prohibits a person from intimidating or retaliating against another person seeking compliance with these prohibitions. These prohibitions do not apply to the use of tobacco on private property. A violation of these prohibitions is an infraction, punishable by a fine of $250 for each violation. Existing law expressly does not preempt the authority of any county, city, or city and county to regulate smoking around playgrounds or tot lot sandbox areas.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 977	California SB 977 (20152016)	bill	Tobacco: youth sports events.	enacted	Pan	7	23	6	2016-02-10	2016-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/d5032a16-b1aa-491d-aaa9-fce3c6c4495c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB977	7f5799ef84aa05a5ae69c4437d3732e86d4c74bd7cf273daf3468ae644fdd767	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 977 (20152016) — Tobacco: youth sports events.

Existing law prohibits the smoking of a cigarette, cigar, or other tobacco product, and the disposal of tobacco-related waste, within 25 feet of any playground or tot lot sandbox area, as defined. Existing law prohibits a person from intimidating or retaliating against another person seeking compliance with these prohibitions. These prohibitions do not apply to the use of tobacco on private property. A violation of these prohibitions is an infraction, punishable by a fine of $250 for each violation. Existing law expressly does not preempt the authority of any county, city, or city and county to regulate smoking around playgrounds or tot lot sandbox areas.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/23/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB977 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB977 Pan Concurrence — 32–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–5 (pass) · lower
• SB 977 Pan Senate Third Reading By COOPER — 61–18 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 33–5 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pan — primary (person)
• Cooper — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-10 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-02-11 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
• 2016-02-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-03-29 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2016-04-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-18 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3558.) (April 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-19 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-06 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2016-05-16 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2016-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 5. Page 3954.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-06-13 Referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (June 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 18. Page 5881.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-25 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 6. Page 5422.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 537, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5032a16-b1aa-491d-aaa9-fce3c6c4495c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).