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type: "Bill"
title: "Hiring of real property: immigration or citizenship status."
description: "Existing law prohibits any city, county, or city and county from compelling a landlord or any agent of the landlord to take any action, as specified, based on the immigration or citizenship status of a tenant, prospective tenant, occupant, or prospective occupant of residential rental property. Existing law provides that these prohibitions do not prohibit a landlord from complying with any legal obligation under federal law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 299"
citation: "California AB 299 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hiring of real property: immigration or citizenship status."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25f1f853-94f4-43f0-a5b8-a1e85f6127f5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB299"
source_hash: "2945a1098c9a12e3900fc910836870d3b675eef27743537895696e3093be532a"
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 299 (20172018) — Hiring of real property: immigration or citizenship status.
Existing law prohibits any city, county, or city and county from compelling a landlord or any agent of the landlord to take any action, as specified, based on the immigration or citizenship status of a tenant, prospective tenant, occupant, or prospective occupant of residential rental property. Existing law provides that these prohibitions do not prohibit a landlord from complying with any legal obligation under federal law.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/06/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB299&version=20170AB29999INT)
2. **06/07/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB299&version=20170AB29998AMD)
3. **09/05/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB299&version=20170AB29997AMD)
4. **10/05/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB299&version=20170AB29995CHP)
5. **AB299** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB299)
6. **09/19/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB299&version=20170AB29996ENR)
## Sponsors
- Calderon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-07** From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
- **2017-02-13** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 1. Page 646.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-03-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-06-07** 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`
- **2017-06-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-09-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2896.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2017-09-15** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 3525.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-10-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 490, Statutes of 2017.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25f1f853-94f4-43f0-a5b8-a1e85f6127f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).