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Bill	Landlords and tenants: California Law Revision Commission: study.	Existing law generally regulates the relationship between parties to a lease of real property. Existing law refers to the lessor of real property variously as, among other terms, "landlord" or "lessor" and refers to the lessee of real property variously as, among other terms, "tenant" or "lessee." Existing law creates the California Law Revision Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, examine the common law and statutes of the state and judicial decisions for the purpose of discovering defects and anachronisms in the law and recommending needed reforms.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2503	California AB 2503 (20212022)	bill	Landlords and tenants: California Law Revision Commission: study.	enacted	Cristina Garcia	6	24	6	2022-02-17	2022-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/f54bc4ad-4392-46af-9608-e5678f57cb75	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2503	478ca35615d89caaf4f9113dab52b9fc99f4551553f2ee889edfef19a537a318	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2503 (20212022) — Landlords and tenants: California Law Revision Commission: study.

Existing law generally regulates the relationship between parties to a lease of real property. Existing law refers to the lessor of real property variously as, among other terms, "landlord" or "lessor" and refers to the lessee of real property variously as, among other terms, "tenant" or "lessee." Existing law creates the California Law Revision Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, examine the common law and statutes of the state and judicial decisions for the purpose of discovering defects and anachronisms in the law and recommending needed reforms.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/01/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/22/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2503 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2503 Cristina Garcia Assembly Third Reading — 54–15 (pass) · lower
• AB 2503 Cristina Garcia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 59–10 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2503 Cristina Garcia et a By Min — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cristina Garcia — primary (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2022-03-10 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-05-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (May 3). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-05-04 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2022-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 15. Page 4881.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-07-20 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-08-01 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
• 2022-08-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5099.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 10.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 462, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f54bc4ad-4392-46af-9608-e5678f57cb75. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).