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type: "Bill"
title: "Public transportation providers."
description: "Existing law defines a battery as any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 394"
citation: "California AB 394 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Publictransportationproviders"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 33
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d0fafa4-004d-47c6-a8d2-99e41a289d8b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB394"
source_hash: "9395247d49251ae0e072e959a60b6a7bde7a9e9aaa822f8649216ff70d5dedef"
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 394 (20252026) — Public transportation providers.
Existing law defines a battery as any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/03/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB394&version=20250AB39499INT)
2. **03/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB394&version=20250AB39498AMD)
3. **03/27/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB394&version=20250AB39497AMD)
4. **04/10/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB394&version=20250AB39496AMD)
5. **04/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB394&version=20250AB39495AMD)
6. **07/17/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB394&version=20250AB39494AMD)
7. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB394&version=20250AB39492CHP)
8. **AB394** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB394)
9. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB394&version=20250AB39493ENR)
## Votes
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **90** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB394 Wilson et al. By Ashby — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **130** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **140** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **120** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **60** (pass) · upper
- AB 394 Wilson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **770** (pass) · lower
- AB 394 Wilson Assembly Third Reading — **760** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Wilson — primary (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Mark González — coauthor (person)
- Niello — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
- **2025-02-18** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2025-03-19** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2025-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** 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`
- **2025-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 22). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1824.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-11** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2885.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3423.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 147, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d0fafa4-004d-47c6-a8d2-99e41a289d8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).