CA AB 2393
enactedFalse imprisonment: false arrest: remedies.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 2393 pass?
Yes. CA AB 2393 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-09-27): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 602, Statutes of 2026.
What is CA AB 2393 about?
Existing law prohibits false imprisonment, defined as the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another. Existing law provides that the measure of damages for the breach of an obligation not arising from a contract is the amount that will compensate for all the detriment proximately caused thereby, whether it could have been anticipated or not, except as expressly provided otherwise. This bill would authorize a prevailing plaintiff in an action based on false imprisonment or false arrest to elect to receive, in lieu of actual damages, $10,000 for each of specified acts committed by the defendant in the perpetration of the false imprisonment or false arrest, as specified. The bill would make defendants liable for the amounts described above for an incident of false imprisonment or false arrest jointly and severally liable and would limit the aggregate award to a person under the above provisions to $250,000 per incident of false imprisonment or false arrest. The bill would exempt causes of action brought against specified parties from the above provisions. The bill would make related findings and declarations and would make its provisions severable.
Who sponsors CA AB 2393?
Addis is the primary sponsor of CA AB 2393.
Description
Existing law prohibits false imprisonment, defined as the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another. Existing law provides that the measure of damages for the breach of an obligation not arising from a contract is the amount that will compensate for all the detriment proximately caused thereby, whether it could have been anticipated or not, except as expressly provided otherwise. This bill would authorize a prevailing plaintiff in an action based on false imprisonment or false arrest to elect to receive, in lieu of actual damages, $10,000 for each of specified acts committed by the defendant in the perpetration of the false imprisonment or false arrest, as specified. The bill would make defendants liable for the amounts described above for an incident of false imprisonment or false arrest jointly and severally liable and would limit the aggregate award to a person under the above provisions to $250,000 per incident of false imprisonment or false arrest. The bill would exempt causes of action brought against specified parties from the above provisions. The bill would make related findings and declarations and would make its provisions severable.
- Introduced
- 2026-03-16
- Latest action
- 2026-09-27 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 602, Statutes of 2026.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Addisauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-09-27
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 602, Statutes of 2026.
became-law
2026-09-27
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2026-09-03
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
executive-receipt
2026-08-26
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
committee-passage
2026-08-25
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-13
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-08-13
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 13).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-08-03
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2026-07-01
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-06-10
Referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee
2026-05-28
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2026-05-27
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 17.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-05-27
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 17. Page 5426.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-04-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-04-22
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 22).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-04-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-03-17
Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee
2026-03-16
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended.
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2026-03-16
Referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee
2026-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-02-20
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-04-07 · pass · 10-2
Member-level votes (12)
- Papan: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Macedo: no
- Dixon: no
Do pass.
2026-04-22 · pass · 9-3
Member-level votes (15)
- Fong: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Krell: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: no
- Dixon: no
- Tangipa: no
- Ta: other
- Muratsuchi: other
- Calderon: other
AB 2393 Addis Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-27 · pass · 61-17
Member-level votes (80)
- Bennett: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Papan: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Addis: yes
- Bains: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Ward: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Soria: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Lee: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Haney: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Krell: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Solache: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Johnson: no
- Hoover: no
- Macedo: no
- DeMaio: no
- Dixon: no
- Davies: no
- Flora: no
- Chen: no
- Jeff Gonzalez: no
- Castillo: no
- Hadwick: no
- Sanchez: no
- Tangipa: no
- Gallagher: no
- Patterson: no
- Ellis: no
- Lackey: no
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Ta: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-30 · pass · 10-2
Member-level votes (13)
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Allen: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Valladares: no
- Niello: no
- Durazo: other
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