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Bill	False reports and harassment.	(1) Existing law makes certain publications and communications, including certain communications in a legislative proceeding, judicial proceeding, any other official proceeding authorized by law, or in the initiation or course of any other proceeding authorized by law and reviewable pursuant to a writ of mandate, privileged, and therefore protected from civil action, subject to certain exceptions. These exceptions include any communication made in a judicial proceeding knowingly concealing the existence of an insurance policy or policies.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1775	California AB 1775 (20192020)	bill	False reports and harassment.	enacted	Jones-Sawyer	8	30	8	2019-02-22	2020-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/1e478993-0550-481d-877c-1beec0ca18d5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1775	fdc2cb701393c071bfb26a66abaca071b02132bb134b4d601ad4d739e0e011fa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1775 (20192020) — False reports and harassment.

(1) Existing law makes certain publications and communications, including certain communications in a legislative proceeding, judicial proceeding, any other official proceeding authorized by law, or in the initiation or course of any other proceeding authorized by law and reviewable pursuant to a writ of mandate, privileged, and therefore protected from civil action, subject to certain exceptions. These exceptions include any communication made in a judicial proceeding knowingly concealing the existence of an insurance policy or policies.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/17/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/31/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/20/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/30/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1775 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 13–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1775 Jones-Sawyer et al. By Skinner — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1775 JONES-SAWYER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1775 Reyes Assembly Third Reading — 55–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)
• Bonta — principal coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Mark Stone — principal coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — principal coauthor (person)
• Umberg — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — 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
• 2019-03-18 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2019-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2019-04-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2020-01-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (January 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (January 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 19. Page 3910.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-01-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-17 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2020-06-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-07-01 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2020-07-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4356.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-31 Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-31 Ordered to the unfinished business file.
• 2020-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5489.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 327, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1e478993-0550-481d-877c-1beec0ca18d5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).