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type: "Bill"
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title: "Unfair business practices: contests and sweepstakes."
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description: "Existing law generally regulates false advertising and specifically prohibits certain unfair acts or practices undertaken by, or omissions of, a person in the operation of a contest, including misrepresenting the odds of winning a prize or failing to award and distribute all prizes. A violation of this provision is a misdemeanor."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20132014"
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identifier: "AB 1439"
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citation: "California AB 1439 (20132014)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Unfair business practices: contests and sweepstakes."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 30
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2014-01-06"
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last_action: "2014-09-26"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76adc691-25bf-47f3-8c62-b9c31819c862"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439"
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source_hash: "b451b79bab72f794d9d0e29c2b2009a4c3714df3e75e63fe78c20505844ff779"
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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 1439 (20132014) — Unfair business practices: contests and sweepstakes.
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Existing law generally regulates false advertising and specifically prohibits certain unfair acts or practices undertaken by, or omissions of, a person in the operation of a contest, including misrepresenting the odds of winning a prize or failing to award and distribute all prizes. A violation of this provision is a misdemeanor.
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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. **01/06/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143999INT)
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2. **03/20/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143998AMD)
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3. **03/24/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143997AMD)
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4. **06/16/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143996AMD)
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5. **08/04/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143995AMD)
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6. **08/21/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143994AMD)
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7. **09/26/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143992CHP)
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8. **AB1439** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439)
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9. **08/29/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1439&version=20130AB143993ENR)
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## Votes
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- 3rd Reading AB1439 Salas By Correa — **34–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 1439 SALAS Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 1439 SALAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Salas — primary (person)
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- Achadjian — coauthor (person)
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- Bigelow — coauthor (person)
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- Bocanegra — coauthor (person)
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- Bonilla — coauthor (person)
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- Bonta — author (person)
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- Brown — coauthor (person)
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- Campos — coauthor (person)
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- Conway — coauthor (person)
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- Cooley — coauthor (person)
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- Daly — coauthor (person)
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- Eggman — coauthor (person)
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- Fox — coauthor (person)
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- Frazier — author (person)
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- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
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- Gray — coauthor (person)
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- Grove — coauthor (person)
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- Holden — coauthor (person)
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- Ian Calderon — coauthor (person)
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- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
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- Lara — coauthor (person)
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- Levine — coauthor (person)
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- Medina — coauthor (person)
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- Melendez — coauthor (person)
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- Mullin — coauthor (person)
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- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
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- Nestande — coauthor (person)
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- Pavley — coauthor (person)
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- Perea — coauthor (person)
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- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
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- Rendon — coauthor (person)
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- Roger Hernández — coauthor (person)
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- Ting — coauthor (person)
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- V. Manuel Pérez — coauthor (person)
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- Vidak — coauthor (person)
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- Waldron — coauthor (person)
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- Wilk — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2014-01-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2014-01-07** From printer. May be heard in committee February 6.
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- **2014-01-17** Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-02-03** Re-referred to Coms. on G.O. and B.,P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-03-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2014-03-24** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2014-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
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- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
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- **2014-05-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2014-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2014-05-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5197.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2014-05-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2014-06-05** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2014-06-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
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- **2014-08-04** 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-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
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- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2014-08-21** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2014-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2014-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4826.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2014-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2014-08-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6444.)
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- **2014-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6466.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2014-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
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- **2014-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2014-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 592, Statutes of 2014.
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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/76adc691-25bf-47f3-8c62-b9c31819c862`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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