republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1482.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tenant Protection Act of 2019: tenancy: rent caps."
description: "Existing law specifies that a hiring of residential real property, for a term not specified by the parties, is deemed to be renewed at the end of the term implied by law unless one of the parties gives written notice to the other of that party's intention to terminate. Existing law requires an owner of a residential dwelling to give notice at least 60 days prior to the proposed date of termination, or at least 30 days prior to the proposed date of termination if any tenant or resident has resided in the dwelling for less than one year, as specified. Existing law requires any notice given by an owner to be given in a prescribed manner, to contain certain information, and to be formatted, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1482"
citation: "California AB 1482 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Tenant Protection Act of 2019: tenancy: rent caps."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chiu"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc0a4c1e-93a1-4452-891e-58a0be725f87"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482"
source_hash: "a1f349fa191701eceb2c370c83458a57e99279514e78bcfdc31f25741cf8e2a4"
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 1482 (20192020) — Tenant Protection Act of 2019: tenancy: rent caps.

Existing law specifies that a hiring of residential real property, for a term not specified by the parties, is deemed to be renewed at the end of the term implied by law unless one of the parties gives written notice to the other of that party's intention to terminate. Existing law requires an owner of a residential dwelling to give notice at least 60 days prior to the proposed date of termination, or at least 30 days prior to the proposed date of termination if any tenant or resident has resided in the dwelling for less than one year, as specified. Existing law requires any notice given by an owner to be given in a prescribed manner, to contain certain information, and to be formatted, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&version=20190AB148299INT)
2. **03/28/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&version=20190AB148298AMD)
3. **04/22/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&version=20190AB148297AMD)
4. **05/20/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&version=20190AB148296AMD)
5. **06/28/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&version=20190AB148295AMD)
6. **07/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&version=20190AB148294AMD)
7. **09/05/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&version=20190AB148293AMD)
8. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&version=20190AB148291CHP)
9. **AB1482** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482)
10. **09/17/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1482&version=20190AB148292ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1482 Chiu Assembly Third Reading — **43–31** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1482 Chiu et al. By Atkins — **25–10** (pass) · upper
- AB 1482 Chiu Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **48–26** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Rules] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chiu — primary (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Atkins — principal coauthor (person)
- Bloom — author (person)
- Bonta — author (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Durazo — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — author (person)
- Hertzberg — principal coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Leyva — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Mitchell — coauthor (person)
- Monning — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — author (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-28** Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1725.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 43. Noes 31. Page 2128.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-12** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-28** 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-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 9). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-19** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-09-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-09-06** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-09-06** (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2608.)
- **2019-09-06** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-09-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 10. Page 2732.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-11** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
- **2019-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 48. Noes 26. Page 3440.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 597, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc0a4c1e-93a1-4452-891e-58a0be725f87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).