republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1407.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Liability: social hosts: alcoholic beverages."
description: "Existing law generally prohibits a social host who furnishes alcoholic beverages to any person from being held legally accountable for damages suffered by that person, or for injury to the person or property of, or death of, any 3rd person, resulting from the consumption of those beverages. Existing law excepts from this prohibition claims against a parent, guardian, or another adult who knowingly furnishes alcoholic beverages at his or her residence to a person under 21 years of age and that furnishing the alcoholic beverages may be found to be the proximate cause of resulting injuries or death."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1407"
citation: "California AB 1407 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Liability: social hosts: alcoholic beverages."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Judiciary"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2011-03-07"
last_action: "2011-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6868e69-8b03-4b2b-be4f-c916a0460c1e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1407"
source_hash: "56a7b8af195b8a1412b642ecab61beb980c46308abfa0080f4f7903c04fa39f0"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1407 (20112012) — Liability: social hosts: alcoholic beverages.

Existing law generally prohibits a social host who furnishes alcoholic beverages to any person from being held legally accountable for damages suffered by that person, or for injury to the person or property of, or death of, any 3rd person, resulting from the consumption of those beverages. Existing law excepts from this prohibition claims against a parent, guardian, or another adult who knowingly furnishes alcoholic beverages at his or her residence to a person under 21 years of age and that furnishing the alcoholic beverages may be found to be the proximate cause of resulting injuries or death.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/07/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1407&version=20110AB140799INT)
2. **03/31/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1407&version=20110AB140798AMD)
3. **06/27/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1407&version=20110AB140797AMD)
4. **10/02/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1407&version=20110AB140795CHP)
5. **AB1407** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1407)
6. **09/09/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1407&version=20110AB140796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- amendments be concurred in. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1407 JUD. Assembly Third Reading By FEUER — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1407 Committee on JUD. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1407 JUD. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By FEUER — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Judiciary — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-03-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-03-08** From printer. May be heard in committee April 7.
- **2011-03-31** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-03** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1436.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-07-06** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-07-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1863.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-08-15** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2011-09-06** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1407.)
- **2011-09-06** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (September 6). `committee-passage`
- **2011-09-07** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2969.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 410, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6868e69-8b03-4b2b-be4f-c916a0460c1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).