republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2559.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reusable tenant screening reports."
description: "Existing law authorizes a landlord, or the landlord's agent, who receives a request to rent a residential property from an applicant to charge that applicant an application screening fee to cover the costs of obtaining information about the applicant."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2559"
citation: "California AB 2559 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Reusable tenant screening reports."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-02-17"
last_action: "2022-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37d2a339-c57d-4246-b665-17a4737260a6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2559"
source_hash: "650132d5dcea0e7af1eca4c82fc0568ca58b515fe4a2a8d24b7321f814e2923c"
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 2559 (20212022) — Reusable tenant screening reports.

Existing law authorizes a landlord, or the landlord's agent, who receives a request to rent a residential property from an applicant to charge that applicant an application screening fee to cover the costs of obtaining information about the applicant.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2559&version=20210AB255999INT)
2. **03/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2559&version=20210AB255998AMD)
3. **04/26/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2559&version=20210AB255997AMD)
4. **05/04/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2559&version=20210AB255996AMD)
5. **06/23/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2559&version=20210AB255995AMD)
6. **09/13/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2559&version=20210AB255993CHP)
7. **AB2559** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2559)
8. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2559&version=20210AB255994ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB2559 Ward By Wiener — **31–7** (pass) · upper
- AB 2559 Ward Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **60–9** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **9–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 2559 Ward Assembly Third Reading — **54–8** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ward — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2022-03-10** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24** 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`
- **2022-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 3). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-05-04** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 8. Page 4697.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-25** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-14** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-06-22** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 21). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-06-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 4941.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-23** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 6056.)
- **2022-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 9. Page 6081.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 288, 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/37d2a339-c57d-4246-b665-17a4737260a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).