republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2260.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency response: trauma kits."
description: "Under existing law, everyone is generally responsible, not only for the result of their willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person. Existing law exempts from civil liability any person who, in good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmedical care or assistance at the scene of an emergency other than an act or omission constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. Existing law exempts public or private organizations that sponsor, authorize, support, finance, or supervise the training of people, or certifies those people in emergency medical services, from liability for civil damages alleged to result from those training programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2260"
citation: "California AB 2260 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency response: trauma kits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-02-16"
last_action: "2022-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c1b187c-b3a5-48db-b406-d73b487992b5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2260"
source_hash: "6591ddf47253498a61b09307b66707cd164a6b1d827e38fdd77e1b8ca2f04e6d"
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 2260 (20212022) — Emergency response: trauma kits.

Under existing law, everyone is generally responsible, not only for the result of their willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person. Existing law exempts from civil liability any person who, in good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmedical care or assistance at the scene of an emergency other than an act or omission constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. Existing law exempts public or private organizations that sponsor, authorize, support, finance, or supervise the training of people, or certifies those people in emergency medical services, from liability for civil damages alleged to result from those training programs.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2260&version=20210AB226099INT)
2. **04/07/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2260&version=20210AB226098AMD)
3. **06/13/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2260&version=20210AB226097AMD)
4. **06/21/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2260&version=20210AB226096AMD)
5. **09/27/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2260&version=20210AB226094CHP)
6. **AB2260** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2260)
7. **08/24/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2260&version=20210AB226095ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2260 Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2260 Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2260 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rodriguez — primary (person)
- Hueso — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2022-03-03** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 4921.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-01** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-21** 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-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-27** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4574.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5973.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 586, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c1b187c-b3a5-48db-b406-d73b487992b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).