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Bill	Cities and counties: ordinances: violations.	Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to make, by ordinance, any violation of an ordinance subject to an administrative fine or penalty and limits the maximum fine or penalty amounts for infractions, to $100 for the first violation, $200 for a 2nd violation of the same ordinance within one year of the first violation, and $500 for each additional violation of the same ordinance within one year of the first violation. For violations of city or county building and safety codes determined to be an infraction, existing law limits the amount of the fine to $100 for a first violation, $500 for a 2nd violation of the same ordinance within one year, and $1,000 for each additional violation of the same ordinance within one year of the first violation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2598	California AB 2598 (20172018)	bill	Cities and counties: ordinances: violations.	enacted	Quirk	7	21	5	2018-02-15	2018-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/58a616fe-024d-41dd-a804-80c2fd2c5ebb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2598	7b2026f5bbcfec530d5289f02a757591c2364f646ccf817c9d4ef6515feac56d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2598 (20172018) — Cities and counties: ordinances: violations.

Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to make, by ordinance, any violation of an ordinance subject to an administrative fine or penalty and limits the maximum fine or penalty amounts for infractions, to $100 for the first violation, $200 for a 2nd violation of the same ordinance within one year of the first violation, and $500 for each additional violation of the same ordinance within one year of the first violation. For violations of city or county building and safety codes determined to be an infraction, existing law limits the amount of the fine to $100 for a first violation, $500 for a 2nd violation of the same ordinance within one year, and $1,000 for each additional violation of the same ordinance within one year of the first violation.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/16/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2598 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2598 Quirk By McGuire — 24–10 (pass) · upper
• AB 2598 QUIRK Assembly Third Reading — 54–17 (pass) · lower
• AB 2598 QUIRK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 58–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Quirk — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2018-03-22 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2018-03-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2018-04-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 17. Page 4997.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-17 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2018-06-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-06-14 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
• 2018-06-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-06-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 10. Page 5229.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 19. Page 6487.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 970, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/58a616fe-024d-41dd-a804-80c2fd2c5ebb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).