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Bill	Cannabis: advertisements.	Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) , approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, regulates the cultivation, distribution, transport, storage, manufacturing, testing, processing, sale, and use of marijuana for nonmedical purposes by people 21 years of age and older. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA authorizes a licensee to advertise and market cannabis and cannabis products subject to specified restrictions, including accurately and legibly identifying the licensee responsible for that content by adding, at a minimum, the licensee's license number, and prohibits a licensee from, among other things, advertising or marketing in a manner that is false or untrue. Under MAUCRSA, each licensing authority is authorized to suspend or revoke a licensee's license for failure to comply with these provisions, among other things.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2899	California AB 2899 (20172018)	bill	Cannabis: advertisements.	enacted	Rubio	8	28	7	2018-02-16	2018-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/ff466834-9a3b-4263-a6a0-64ac1027dd33	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2899	3f1b7130bc01fc5d1fec4139e4b6fa196b1c9102ce21e68f28da08a08c0cde48	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2899 (20172018) — Cannabis: advertisements.

Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) , approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, regulates the cultivation, distribution, transport, storage, manufacturing, testing, processing, sale, and use of marijuana for nonmedical purposes by people 21 years of age and older. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA authorizes a licensee to advertise and market cannabis and cannabis products subject to specified restrictions, including accurately and legibly identifying the licensee responsible for that content by adding, at a minimum, the licensee's license number, and prohibits a licensee from, among other things, advertising or marketing in a manner that is false or untrue. Under MAUCRSA, each licensing authority is authorized to suspend or revoke a licensee's license for failure to comply with these provisions, among other things.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/16/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/24/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/20/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2899 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2899 RUBIO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2899 RUBIO Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2899 Rubio et al. By Glazer — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rubio — primary (person)
• Chau — principal coauthor (person)
• Cooper — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-22 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2018-04-10 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
• 2018-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2018-04-16 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
• 2018-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2018-04-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-24 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5217.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2018-06-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5443.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-23 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2018-08-28 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 28). committee-passage
• 2018-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6881.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 923, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ff466834-9a3b-4263-a6a0-64ac1027dd33. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).