republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-81.md

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Bill	COVID-19 relief.	(1) Existing law, the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act, until July 1, 2025, establishes procedural requirements and limitations on evictions for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 rental debt, as defined. Existing law, among other things, prohibits a tenant that delivers a declaration, under penalty of perjury, of COVID-19-related financial distress from being deemed in default with regard to the COVID-19 rental debt, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 81	California AB 81 (20212022)	bill appropriation	COVID-19 relief.	enacted	Ting	5	22	4	2020-12-07	2021-02-23	openstates	ocd-bill/370b6744-4522-4f08-bf49-6534a58efb54	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB81	22b1302ac3c6deb7b8ce3390e310c202251c17d58c942aefaab776eaa0b682b0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 81 (20212022) — COVID-19 relief.

(1) Existing law, the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act, until July 1, 2025, establishes procedural requirements and limitations on evictions for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 rental debt, as defined. Existing law, among other things, prohibits a tenant that delivers a declaration, under penalty of perjury, of COVID-19-related financial distress from being deemed in default with regard to the COVID-19 rental debt, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/17/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/23/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB81 (committee substitute) — source
5. 02/22/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB81 Ting By Skinner — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 81 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 81 Ting Assembly Third Reading — 48–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
• 2021-01-11 Without reference to committee. referral-committee
• 2021-01-11 Ordered to second reading.
• 2021-01-11 (Ayes 46. Noes 13. Page 108.)
• 2021-01-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-01-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 13. Page 161.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-01-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-01-25 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
• 2021-01-26 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-02-16 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.
• 2021-02-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-02-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (February 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-02-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-02-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after February 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-02-22 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2021-02-22 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 437.)
• 2021-02-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 440.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2021-02-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-02-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 5, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/370b6744-4522-4f08-bf49-6534a58efb54. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).