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Bill	Public safety: lighters: standards: prohibition.	Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to specify standards for the design of cigarette lighters using an 80% acceptance criterion with respect to safety features that prevent operation of the lighters by children 5 years of age or younger. Existing law prohibits a person from selling, offering for sale, or distributing a cigarette lighter that does not comply with those standards.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 793	California SB 793 (20252026)	bill	Publicsafety lighters prohibition standards	enacted	Archuleta	6	25	8	2025-02-21	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/2713dc6f-0b43-40d5-81fe-4f85155c0d82	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB793	96d9b69369caf419d4258da39c19a4c9e87dd6f834e1914a86b6214aaa6613bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 793 (20252026) — Public safety: lighters: standards: prohibition.

Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to specify standards for the design of cigarette lighters using an 80% acceptance criterion with respect to safety features that prevent operation of the lighters by children 5 years of age or younger. Existing law prohibits a person from selling, offering for sale, or distributing a cigarette lighter that does not comply with those standards.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/02/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB793 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB793 Archuleta Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 793 Archuleta Senate Third Reading By Ransom — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Archuleta — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-03-12 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2025-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 704.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 943.) (April 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1050.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-08 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-09 Referred to Coms. on E.M and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3093.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2876.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 235, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2713dc6f-0b43-40d5-81fe-4f85155c0d82. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).