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Bill	Punitive damages: minors.	Existing law provides that in specified civil actions brought by, on behalf of, or for the benefit of, senior citizens or disabled persons, as defined, the trier of fact must consider certain factors in determining the fine or penalty to be imposed. If the trier of fact makes an affirmative finding of any of these factors, existing law permits the imposition of a fine or penalty up to 3 times greater than authorized by statute, or, if the statute does not authorize a specific amount, up to 3 times greater than the amount the trier of fact would have imposed in the absence of that affirmative finding.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2105	California AB 2105 (20172018)	bill	Punitive damages: minors.	enacted	Maienschein	7	19	4	2018-02-08	2018-08-20	openstates	ocd-bill/1da730cb-c939-4044-a8c9-9c4c1203205c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2105	0ac0cac54cec3492d4ea2c1a855b9ef481f34b9ecdf8448bfecb7b7816375603	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2105 (20172018) — Punitive damages: minors.

Existing law provides that in specified civil actions brought by, on behalf of, or for the benefit of, senior citizens or disabled persons, as defined, the trier of fact must consider certain factors in determining the fine or penalty to be imposed. If the trier of fact makes an affirmative finding of any of these factors, existing law permits the imposition of a fine or penalty up to 3 times greater than authorized by statute, or, if the statute does not authorize a specific amount, up to 3 times greater than the amount the trier of fact would have imposed in the absence of that affirmative finding.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/21/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/20/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2105 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/07/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar AB2105 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2105 MAIENSCHEIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2105 MAIENSCHEIN Consent Calendar Second Day — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)
• Acosta — coauthor (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Cunningham — coauthor (person)
• Flora — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• Morrell — coauthor (person)
• Nguyen — coauthor (person)
• Rodriguez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-08 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-09 From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
• 2018-02-22 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-03-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-03-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-03-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-03-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 4531.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-04-19 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-06-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-07-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5037.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-07-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6136.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2018-08-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-08-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 166, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1da730cb-c939-4044-a8c9-9c4c1203205c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).