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California 20252026

AB 2393

False imprisonment: false arrest: remedies.

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-12 13:12:55 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Falseimprisonment, falsearrest, remedies
Introduced / first action
2026-02-20 00:00:00

Alternate titles

  • Damages for breach of contract.

Source-supplied abstracts

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.

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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  2. In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

    committee-passage

  3. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10.).

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  4. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  5. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 13).

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  6. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

    referral-committee

  7. 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

  8. Referred to Com. on JUD.

    referral-committee

  9. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  10. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 17.)

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  11. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  12. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 22).

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  13. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee

  14. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

    referral-committee

  15. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended.

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  16. Referred to Com. on JUD.

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  17. From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  18. Read first time. To print.

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