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Bill	Reusable tenant screening reports.	Existing law authorizes a landlord, or the landlord's agent, who receives a request to rent a residential property from an applicant to charge that applicant an application screening fee to cover the costs of obtaining information about the applicant.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2559	California AB 2559 (20212022)	bill	Reusable tenant screening reports.	enacted	Ward	8	24	6	2022-02-17	2022-09-13	openstates	ocd-bill/37d2a339-c57d-4246-b665-17a4737260a6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2559	650132d5dcea0e7af1eca4c82fc0568ca58b515fe4a2a8d24b7321f814e2923c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2559 (20212022) — Reusable tenant screening reports.

Existing law authorizes a landlord, or the landlord's agent, who receives a request to rent a residential property from an applicant to charge that applicant an application screening fee to cover the costs of obtaining information about the applicant.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/26/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/04/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/23/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/13/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2559 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/25/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2559 Ward By Wiener — 31–7 (pass) · upper
• AB 2559 Ward Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–9 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2559 Ward Assembly Third Reading — 54–8 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ward — primary (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 Coms. on JUD. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2022-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2022-05-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (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
• 2022-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 8. Page 4697.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-25 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-14 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 21). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-06-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 4941.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-23 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 6056.)
• 2022-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 9. Page 6081.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 288, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/37d2a339-c57d-4246-b665-17a4737260a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).