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Bill	Hosting platforms.	Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, prohibits an owner of housing from engaging in specific acts of discrimination against a person seeking to purchase, rent, or lease any housing accommodation. Existing law authorizes the Department of Fair Employment and Housing to receive and investigate complaints of violations of the act. The act defines "housing accommodation" for these purposes to mean any building, structure, or portion thereof that is occupied as, or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one or more families.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1497	California AB 1497 (20192020)	bill	Hosting platforms.	enacted	Holden	7	28	7	2019-02-22	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/1ace98f9-fa3a-45f2-849d-8d9714dd8ff7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1497	ac524aaf05a799a2112007031cdf6b24398709d40d448318bf17b91ab670f7ef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1497 (20192020) — Hosting platforms.

Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, prohibits an owner of housing from engaging in specific acts of discrimination against a person seeking to purchase, rent, or lease any housing accommodation. Existing law authorizes the Department of Fair Employment and Housing to receive and investigate complaints of violations of the act. The act defines "housing accommodation" for these purposes to mean any building, structure, or portion thereof that is occupied as, or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one or more families.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/12/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/28/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1497 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1497 Holden Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1497 Holden Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1497 Holden et al. By Wiener — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Holden — primary (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-21 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 Coauthors revised.
• 2019-05-08 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1772.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-24 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-07-01 From Consent Calendar.
• 2019-07-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-08-28 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2459.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3093.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 599, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ace98f9-fa3a-45f2-849d-8d9714dd8ff7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).