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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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77 lines
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Product safety: recreational water safety: wearable personal flotation devices: infants and children."
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description: "Existing law prohibits a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale in commerce in this state a wearable personal flotation device that is not approved by the United States Coast Guard. Existing law defines for these purposes a \"wearable personal flotation device\" as a lifejacket, puddle jumper, water wings, or other flotation device designed to be worn or attached to the body of an infant or child."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 1571"
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citation: "California AB 1571 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Productsafety", "infantsandchildren", "recreationalwatersafety", "wearablepersonalflotationdevices"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Michelle Rodriguez"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2026-01-12"
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last_action: "2026-06-29"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/855ed454-a0ac-4f08-adb8-ffd46a162c09"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1571"
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source_hash: "662fd61924aa9d5721dc555e79589392484bc453b563f1ae6af40e8da9030880"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1571 (20252026) — Product safety: recreational water safety: wearable personal flotation devices: infants and children.
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Existing law prohibits a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale in commerce in this state a wearable personal flotation device that is not approved by the United States Coast Guard. Existing law defines for these purposes a "wearable personal flotation device" as a lifejacket, puddle jumper, water wings, or other flotation device designed to be worn or attached to the body of an infant or child.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **01/12/26 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1571&version=20250AB157199INT)
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2. **AB1571** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1571)
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3. **06/22/26 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1571&version=20250AB157198ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper
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- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1571 Michelle Rodriguez — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 1571 Michelle Rodriguez Consent Calendar Second Day — **64–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Michelle Rodriguez — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2026-01-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2026-01-13** From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
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- **2026-02-02** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
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- **2026-03-25** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-03-26** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2026-04-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 0. Page 4556.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2026-04-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2026-05-06** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2026-06-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-06-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2026-06-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2026-06-18** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2026-06-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
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- **2026-06-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2026-06-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 31, Statutes of 2026. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/855ed454-a0ac-4f08-adb8-ffd46a162c09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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