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type: "Bill"
title: "Tobacco: youth sports events."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 977"
citation: "California SB 977 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tobacco: youth sports events."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pan"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-02-10"
last_action: "2016-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5032a16-b1aa-491d-aaa9-fce3c6c4495c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB977"
source_hash: "7f5799ef84aa05a5ae69c4437d3732e86d4c74bd7cf273daf3468ae644fdd767"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB977&version=20150SB97799INT)
2. **04/04/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB977&version=20150SB97798AMD)
3. **04/19/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB977&version=20150SB97797AMD)
4. **06/15/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB977&version=20150SB97796AMD)
5. **09/23/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB977&version=20150SB97794CHP)
6. **SB977** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB977)
7. **08/26/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB977&version=20150SB97795ENR)
## Votes
- Unfinished Business SB977 Pan Concurrence — **326** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **61** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **135** (pass) · lower
- SB 977 Pan Senate Third Reading By COOPER — **6118** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **335** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **90** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5032a16-b1aa-491d-aaa9-fce3c6c4495c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).