republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-291.md

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Bill	Housing: immigration.	(1) Existing law, the State Bar Act, makes it a cause for suspension, disbarment, or other discipline for any member of the State Bar to report suspected immigration status or threaten to report suspected immigration status of a witness or party to a civil or administrative action or his or her family member, as defined, to a federal, state, or local agency because the witness or party exercises or has exercised a right related to his or her employment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 291	California AB 291 (20172018)	bill	Housing: immigration.	enacted	Chiu	8	25	3	2017-02-02	2017-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/ccdf4a42-770c-4de9-be0f-179b171518f7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB291	111599f1f04b9c04dd5ad1832559f4951e00ada812b165ac6cb6f01ca21bd46f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 291 (20172018) — Housing: immigration.

(1) Existing law, the State Bar Act, makes it a cause for suspension, disbarment, or other discipline for any member of the State Bar to report suspected immigration status or threaten to report suspected immigration status of a witness or party to a civil or administrative action or his or her family member, as defined, to a federal, state, or local agency because the witness or party exercises or has exercised a right related to his or her employment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/02/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/29/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/15/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/28/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/05/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB291 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 291 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 56–20 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB291 Chiu et al. By Lara — 28–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — author (person)
• Chu — coauthor (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — author (person)
• Kalra — author (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-02 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-03 From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
• 2017-02-13 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2017-03-01 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-03-15 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
• 2017-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (March 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-29 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2017-05-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (May 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 17. Page 1655.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-28 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 2496.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 56. Noes 20. Page 3103.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 489, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ccdf4a42-770c-4de9-be0f-179b171518f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).