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Bill	Discrimination: race: hairstyles.	Existing law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of this state are entitled to full and equal accommodations in all business establishments regardless of their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1815	California AB 1815 (20232024)	bill	Discrimination hairstyles race	enacted	Weber	8	29	6	2024-01-10	2024-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/4ddfe529-1ab4-4527-8d33-dc7e40db9f7f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1815	54be732ec4d962fd580725eb9825119018de58bc5e5fa99c3ce1f5c63fd2c1a7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1815 (20232024) — Discrimination: race: hairstyles.

Existing law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of this state are entitled to full and equal accommodations in all business establishments regardless of their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status.

Version chain

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

1. 01/10/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/14/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/21/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/26/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1815 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1815 Weber Assembly Third Reading — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1815 Weber et al. By Smallwood-Cuevas — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1815 Weber Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Weber — primary (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Bradford — coauthor (person)
• Bryan — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Holden — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• McKinnor — coauthor (person)
• Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
• Wilson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-01-11 From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
• 2024-01-22 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-03-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-03-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-03-21 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
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-04-02 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5079.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-15 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-05-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-17 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-06-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-14 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 619, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4ddfe529-1ab4-4527-8d33-dc7e40db9f7f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).