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Bill	Price gouging: state of emergency.	Under existing law, upon the proclamation of a state of emergency, as defined, declared by the President of the United States or the Governor, or upon the declaration of a local emergency, as defined, by the executive officer of any county, city, or city and county, and for a period of 30 days following that declaration, it is a misdemeanor with specified penalties for a person, contractor, business, or other entity to sell or offer to sell certain goods and services, including housing, for a price that exceeds by 10% the price charged by that person immediately prior to the proclamation of emergency, except as specified. Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, establishes the Office of Emergency Services and vests the office with responsibility for the state's emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1919	California AB 1919 (20172018)	bill	Price gouging: state of emergency.	enacted	Wood	8	29	8	2018-01-24	2018-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/8375c5cc-cabb-4adf-8cf6-3ba0f5ab9f72	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1919	e9368837e5cc35389ae0c5fe8d9e5c3406b369d84d8f191d66cf0a367e147b0d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1919 (20172018) — Price gouging: state of emergency.

Under existing law, upon the proclamation of a state of emergency, as defined, declared by the President of the United States or the Governor, or upon the declaration of a local emergency, as defined, by the executive officer of any county, city, or city and county, and for a period of 30 days following that declaration, it is a misdemeanor with specified penalties for a person, contractor, business, or other entity to sell or offer to sell certain goods and services, including housing, for a price that exceeds by 10% the price charged by that person immediately prior to the proclamation of emergency, except as specified. Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, establishes the Office of Emergency Services and vests the office with responsibility for the state's emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/24/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/25/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/12/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/21/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1919 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1919 Wood et al. By Jackson — 37–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1919 WOOD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 68–4 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1919 WOOD Assembly Third Reading — 65–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• McGuire — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-01-25 From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
• 2018-02-05 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-03-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-03-20 In committee: Set, second hearing. Testimony taken.
• 2018-04-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-18 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 5. Page 5521.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and G.O. referral-committee
• 2018-06-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on G.O. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 6076.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 2018-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 4.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 631, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8375c5cc-cabb-4adf-8cf6-3ba0f5ab9f72. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).