republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-2738.md

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type: "Bill"
title: "Contamination."
description: "(1) Existing law, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65) , prohibits any person, in the course of doing business, from knowingly and intentionally exposing any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from knowingly discharging or releasing that chemical into water or any source of drinking water, except as specified. The act imposes civil penalties of not more than $2,500 per day upon persons who violate those prohibitions and provides for the enforcement of those prohibitions by the Attorney General, a district attorney, or specified city attorneys or prosecutors, and by any person in the public interest. Existing law, in an action brought by a person in the public interest, requires a person who serves notice of the alleged violation for an exposure to complete, as appropriate, and provide to the alleged violator a notice of special compliance procedure and proof of compliance form, as specified, and prohibits an action from being filed if specified circumstances are met, including the notice being timely served and the alleged violator correcting the alleged violation. Existing law requires the notice to allege that the alleged violator failed to provide clear and reasonable warning of specified exposures and no other violation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 2738"
citation: "California AB 2738 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Contamination."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-26"
last_action: "2014-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fa0daef-61fd-43ef-b773-cca502b71555"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2738"
source_hash: "b9d7f16155f28734eaf0896c3d42810d4fd272c2220368e1fa35cf7595977194"
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 2738 (20132014) — Contamination.

(1) Existing law, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65) , prohibits any person, in the course of doing business, from knowingly and intentionally exposing any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from knowingly discharging or releasing that chemical into water or any source of drinking water, except as specified. The act imposes civil penalties of not more than $2,500 per day upon persons who violate those prohibitions and provides for the enforcement of those prohibitions by the Attorney General, a district attorney, or specified city attorneys or prosecutors, and by any person in the public interest. Existing law, in an action brought by a person in the public interest, requires a person who serves notice of the alleged violation for an exposure to complete, as appropriate, and provide to the alleged violator a notice of special compliance procedure and proof of compliance form, as specified, and prohibits an action from being filed if specified circumstances are met, including the notice being timely served and the alleged violator correcting the alleged violation. Existing law requires the notice to allege that the alleged violator failed to provide clear and reasonable warning of specified exposures and no other violation.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2738&version=20130AB273899INT)
2. **04/21/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2738&version=20130AB273898AMD)
3. **05/23/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2738&version=20130AB273897AMD)
4. **07/01/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2738&version=20130AB273896AMD)
5. **09/29/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2738&version=20130AB273894CHP)
6. **AB2738** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2738)
7. **08/18/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2738&version=20130AB273895ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2738 E.S. & T.M. Assembly Third Reading By ALEJO — **63–8** (pass) · lower
- AB 2738 E.S. & T.M. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By ALEJO — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2738 Committee on E.S. & T.M.(Alejo) By Hill — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2014-03-17** Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 8. Page 5285.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-06-11** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4371.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6037.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2014-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 828, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3fa0daef-61fd-43ef-b773-cca502b71555`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).