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Bill	Evidence: admissibility of creative expressions.	Existing law permits a court to exclude evidence if its probative value is substantially outweighed by specified factors, including the probability that its admission will create substantial danger of undue prejudice. Existing law permits a court to hear and determine the question of admissibility of evidence out of the presence or hearing of the jury.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2799	California AB 2799 (20212022)	bill	Evidence: admissibility of creative expressions.	enacted	Jones-Sawyer	7	24	5	2022-02-18	2022-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/92ea7144-4f8f-4168-89e3-ac1257d42c61	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2799	927dd12266fb1531f2a956cec51e7f5fd2657d70b73e3993cbccaf25c744f4eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2799 (20212022) — Evidence: admissibility of creative expressions.

Existing law permits a court to exclude evidence if its probative value is substantially outweighed by specified factors, including the probability that its admission will create substantial danger of undue prejudice. Existing law permits a court to hear and determine the question of admissibility of evidence out of the presence or hearing of the jury.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/06/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/09/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2799 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2799 Jones-Sawyer Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2799 Jones-Sawyer By Bradford — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2799 Jones-Sawyer Consent Calendar Second Day — 61–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2022-03-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-03-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-14 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 0. Page 4576.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-18 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-06-06 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-08 From Special Consent Calendar.
• 2022-08-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-09 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4907.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5989.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2022-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 973, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92ea7144-4f8f-4168-89e3-ac1257d42c61. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).