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type: "Bill"
title: "Civil actions: provisional remedies: injunctions."
description: "Existing law provides that a citizen resident or corporation who is assessed for and is liable to pay, or within one year before the commencement of the action, has paid, a tax in a county, town, city, or city and county may maintain an action to obtain a judgment restraining and preventing an illegal expenditure of, waste of, or injury to the estate, funds, or other property of the political subdivision, as specified. The California Supreme Court in Weatherford v. City of San Rafael (2017) 2 Cal.5th 1241 held that this tax was not restricted to payment of a property tax."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2376"
citation: "California AB 2376 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil actions: provisional remedies: injunctions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Stone"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-02-14"
last_action: "2018-09-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db6a28bb-2924-408b-ac2e-437983f33374"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2376"
source_hash: "2fa4ff285a64da86ef8c7937bb12c526d6aac4b0c64cd37f71bbecffe4c8ea44"
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 AB 2376 (20172018) — Civil actions: provisional remedies: injunctions.
Existing law provides that a citizen resident or corporation who is assessed for and is liable to pay, or within one year before the commencement of the action, has paid, a tax in a county, town, city, or city and county may maintain an action to obtain a judgment restraining and preventing an illegal expenditure of, waste of, or injury to the estate, funds, or other property of the political subdivision, as specified. The California Supreme Court in Weatherford v. City of San Rafael (2017) 2 Cal.5th 1241 held that this tax was not restricted to payment of a property tax.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/14/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2376&version=20170AB237699INT)
2. **03/19/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2376&version=20170AB237698AMD)
3. **04/12/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2376&version=20170AB237697AMD)
4. **05/29/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2376&version=20170AB237696AMD)
5. **07/05/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2376&version=20170AB237695AMD)
6. **09/10/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2376&version=20170AB237693CHP)
7. **AB2376** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2376)
8. **08/29/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2376&version=20170AB237694ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading AB2376 Mark Stone By Galgiani — **380** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 2376 STONE Assembly Third Reading — **650** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **90** (pass) · lower
- AB 2376 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **780** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mark Stone — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2018-03-19** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** 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`
- **2018-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 10). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-12** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 4786.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-06-18** From Consent Calendar.
- **2018-06-18** Ordered to third reading.
- **2018-07-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5511.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6623.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 319, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db6a28bb-2924-408b-ac2e-437983f33374`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).