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Bill	Sex trafficking: hotels: actual knowledge or reckless disregard: civil penalty.	Existing law requires hotels, as defined, to provide at least 20 minutes of training to their staff on how to recognize human trafficking as it pertains specifically to the hotel sector. Existing law does not create liability against a hotel or its employees for the lack of reporting a human trafficking case.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1788	California AB 1788 (20212022)	bill	Sex trafficking: hotels: actual knowledge or reckless disregard: civil penalty.	enacted	Cunningham	8	25	7	2022-02-03	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/4c9bf039-64f7-4f42-b17c-e01e3bf1e577	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1788	d599c7f1a89923decd77e8e284dfc7cd009ab90f3d4d7b2f4cb82eae58947de4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1788 (20212022) — Sex trafficking: hotels: actual knowledge or reckless disregard: civil penalty.

Existing law requires hotels, as defined, to provide at least 20 minutes of training to their staff on how to recognize human trafficking as it pertains specifically to the hotel sector. Existing law does not create liability against a hotel or its employees for the lack of reporting a human trafficking case.

Version chain

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

1. 02/03/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/11/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1788 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1788 Cunningham Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1788 Cunningham et al. By Wilk — 32–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1788 Cunningham Assembly Third Reading — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cunningham — primary (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
• Valladares — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-04 From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
• 2022-02-10 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-07 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-03-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-03-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 4112.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-03-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-04 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-05-31 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-06-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 8). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-27 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 2.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 760, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c9bf039-64f7-4f42-b17c-e01e3bf1e577. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).