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Bill	Alarm companies: liability: false alarm.	The Alarm Company Act provides for the regulation, by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services within the Department of Consumer Affairs, of alarm company operators and alarm agents. The act provides that it does not prevent the local authorities of any city, county, or city and county from, among other things, enacting ordinances governing false alarm activations and responses.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1616	California AB 1616 (20172018)	bill	Alarm companies: liability: false alarm.	enacted	Nazarian	9	26	1	2017-02-17	2017-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/10657db4-5494-4440-88cb-29eabd704cef	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1616	6ff01a64a5b632ffdd449001976ce89519bd4b641aa400b0d1122945e6e059ab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1616 (20172018) — Alarm companies: liability: false alarm.

The Alarm Company Act provides for the regulation, by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services within the Department of Consumer Affairs, of alarm company operators and alarm agents. The act provides that it does not prevent the local authorities of any city, county, or city and county from, among other things, enacting ordinances governing false alarm activations and responses.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/26/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/08/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/12/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/20/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/31/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1616 (committee substitute) — source
9. 07/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1616 NAZARIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nazarian — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-20 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2017-05-04 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1613.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2017-06-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-06-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-14 Measure version as amended on June 12 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2017-06-15 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-07-06 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2022.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-07-17 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2569.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-07-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-07-31 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-07-31 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 157, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/10657db4-5494-4440-88cb-29eabd704cef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).