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type: "Bill"
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title: "Product safety: recreational water safety: wearable personal flotation devices: infants and children."
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description: "Existing law prohibits a person from using a recreational vessel unless, among other things, there is at least one wearable personal flotation device on board the vessel for each person on the vessel, as provided. Existing law provides for the establishment and enforcement of various product safety standards for consumer products, as provided. Existing law provides various requirements relating to safe recreational water use."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20232024"
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identifier: "AB 2146"
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citation: "California AB 2146 (20232024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Product safety", "infants and children", "recreational water safety", "wearable personal flotation devices"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2024-02-06"
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last_action: "2024-09-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56ac474a-08b8-44bd-92ad-f790291285b6"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2146"
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source_hash: "718e85c909944428abdda646ff075a12ccbd2e21c04b0fd4916a58c97eb19fe3"
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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 2146 (20232024) — Product safety: recreational water safety: wearable personal flotation devices: infants and children.
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Existing law prohibits a person from using a recreational vessel unless, among other things, there is at least one wearable personal flotation device on board the vessel for each person on the vessel, as provided. Existing law provides for the establishment and enforcement of various product safety standards for consumer products, as provided. Existing law provides various requirements relating to safe recreational water use.
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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. **02/06/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2146&version=20230AB214699INT)
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2. **03/21/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2146&version=20230AB214698AMD)
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3. **05/02/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2146&version=20230AB214697AMD)
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4. **05/16/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2146&version=20230AB214696AMD)
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5. **06/06/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2146&version=20230AB214695AMD)
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6. **07/02/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2146&version=20230AB214694AMD)
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7. **09/20/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2146&version=20230AB214692CHP)
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8. **AB2146** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2146)
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9. **08/31/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2146&version=20230AB214693ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 2146 Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 2146 Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB2146 Rodriguez et al. By Rubio — **33–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Rodriguez — primary (person)
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- Rubio — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-02-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2024-02-07** From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
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- **2024-03-21** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-21** 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`
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- **2024-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-05-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 30). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2024-05-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-05-16** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5348.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2024-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2024-05-29** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2024-06-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 5). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2024-06-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-06-13** From Consent Calendar.
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- **2024-06-13** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2024-07-02** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2024-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5268.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2024-08-21** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 23 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2024-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2024-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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- **2024-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2024-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 307, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
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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/56ac474a-08b8-44bd-92ad-f790291285b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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