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Bill	Ticket sellers.	Existing law provides comprehensive regulation of ticket sellers, including the requirement that a ticket seller issue a refund upon request to a ticket purchaser for canceled, postponed, or rescheduled events. Violation of this provision is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1556	California AB 1556 (20212022)	bill	Ticket sellers.	enacted	Friedman	8	28	7	2021-02-19	2021-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/b87e48f0-b1b3-4c6d-beda-8e087d35ac6f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1556	9d957364287a0ec49ea67805d37c3f3da19d748194f59fc38044bbf735c91c1e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1556 (20212022) — Ticket sellers.

Existing law provides comprehensive regulation of ticket sellers, including the requirement that a ticket seller issue a refund upon request to a ticket purchaser for canceled, postponed, or rescheduled events. Violation of this provision is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/27/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/10/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/07/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/16/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1556 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/03/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1556 Friedman Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1556 Friedman et al. By Newman — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1556 Friedman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Friedman — primary (person)
• Newman — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-03-11 Referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1548.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-03 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2021-06-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-07-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2219.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-01 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
• 2021-09-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2643.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2021-09-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 180, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b87e48f0-b1b3-4c6d-beda-8e087d35ac6f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).