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Bill	Campaign expenditures: criminal convictions: fees and costs.	Existing law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, deems all campaign contributions to be held in trust for expenses associated with seeking or holding office, and generally authorizes expenditures associated therewith if they are reasonably related to a political, legislative, or governmental purpose. Existing law prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay or reimburse fines, penalties, judgments, or settlements, except as specified. Existing law provides that the expenditure of campaign funds for attorney's fees and other costs in connection with administrative, civil, or criminal litigation are not related to a political, legislative, or governmental purpose unless the litigation is directly related to activities of a committee that are consistent with its primary objectives or arises directly out of a candidate's or elected officer's activities, duties, or status as a candidate or elected officer, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2803	California AB 2803 (20232024)	bill	Campaign expenditures criminal convictions fees and costs	enacted	Valencia	6	25	6	2024-02-15	2024-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/64ad7be2-1594-4524-8ef7-84d185cef9c7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2803	360638c3e94799b24414d0b8236fbe53b872a6f97f4e20d699196d1bfd8fe25f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2803 (20232024) — Campaign expenditures: criminal convictions: fees and costs.

Existing law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, deems all campaign contributions to be held in trust for expenses associated with seeking or holding office, and generally authorizes expenditures associated therewith if they are reasonably related to a political, legislative, or governmental purpose. Existing law prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay or reimburse fines, penalties, judgments, or settlements, except as specified. Existing law provides that the expenditure of campaign funds for attorney's fees and other costs in connection with administrative, civil, or criminal litigation are not related to a political, legislative, or governmental purpose unless the litigation is directly related to activities of a committee that are consistent with its primary objectives or arises directly out of a candidate's or elected officer's activities, duties, or status as a candidate or elected officer, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/16/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/22/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/25/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2803 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2803 Valencia Consent Calendar Second Day — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2803 Valencia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2803 Valencia et al. By Menjivar — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Valencia — primary (person)
• Chen — coauthor (person)
• Umberg — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2024-03-04 Referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2024-04-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-04-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS. referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-05-08 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-29 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A. referral-committee
• 2024-06-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-08-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 1.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 576, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/64ad7be2-1594-4524-8ef7-84d185cef9c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).