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type: "Bill"
title: "Privacy."
description: "Existing law generally makes a person who looks through a hole or opening, into, or otherwise views, by means of any instrumentality, including, but not limited to, a periscope, telescope, binoculars, camera, motion picture camera, camcorder, or mobile phone, the interior of a bedroom, bathroom, changing room, fitting room, dressing room, or tanning booth, or the interior of any other area in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, with the intent to invade the privacy of a person or persons inside, guilty of a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1129"
citation: "California AB 1129 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Privacy."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chau"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eca3dbaa-867e-4024-84cb-dd52ec4a1ecc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1129"
source_hash: "507427380b200629c20cf2102ce8ce1c779193fe5068b182c5f6835d6df6946d"
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 1129 (20192020) — Privacy.
Existing law generally makes a person who looks through a hole or opening, into, or otherwise views, by means of any instrumentality, including, but not limited to, a periscope, telescope, binoculars, camera, motion picture camera, camcorder, or mobile phone, the interior of a bedroom, bathroom, changing room, fitting room, dressing room, or tanning booth, or the interior of any other area in which the occupant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, with the intent to invade the privacy of a person or persons inside, guilty of a misdemeanor.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1129&version=20190AB112999INT)
2. **04/08/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1129&version=20190AB112998AMD)
3. **09/04/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1129&version=20190AB112997AMD)
4. **10/11/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1129&version=20190AB112995CHP)
5. **AB1129** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1129)
6. **09/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1129&version=20190AB112996ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading AB1129 Chau et al. By Nielsen — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **180** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **80** (pass) · lower
- AB 1129 Chau Consent Calendar Second Day — **760** (pass) · lower
- AB 1129 Chau Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **790** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chau — primary (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-08** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Coauthors revised.
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1477.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-06-06** From Consent Calendar.
- **2019-06-06** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2704.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-10** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3252.)
- **2019-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3309.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 749, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eca3dbaa-867e-4024-84cb-dd52ec4a1ecc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).