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Bill	Tobacco sales: flavored tobacco ban.	Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, prohibits a person from selling or otherwise furnishing tobacco products, as defined, to a person under 21 years of age. Under existing law, violations of the act are punishable by civil penalties, as specified, and primary enforcement of the act is the responsibility of the State Department of Public Health.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 935	California AB 935 (20232024)	bill	Tobacco sales flavored tobacco ban	enacted	Connolly	10	32	10	2023-02-14	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/2e4b3251-aeaf-40ab-b124-406dddc8d92e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB935	3a5a76a9ca5f900c4707d8750b5523d129c36d6a84c3ababa5eb0fba9bc1c262	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 935 (20232024) — Tobacco sales: flavored tobacco ban.

Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, prohibits a person from selling or otherwise furnishing tobacco products, as defined, to a person under 21 years of age. Under existing law, violations of the act are punishable by civil penalties, as specified, and primary enforcement of the act is the responsibility of the State Department of Public Health.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/18/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/12/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/26/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/10/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB935 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization] — 10–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 935 Connolly Assembly Third Reading — 61–14 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB935 Connolly et al. By Rubio — 30–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 935 Connolly Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–14 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Connolly — primary (person)
• Addis — coauthor (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2023-03-16 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and G.O. referral-committee
• 2023-04-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (April 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2023-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 4.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1580.)
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 14. Page 1922.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2023-06-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-14 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 2638.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 14. Page 3366.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 351, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2e4b3251-aeaf-40ab-b124-406dddc8d92e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).