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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 2393: False imprisonment: false arrest: remedies.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 2393 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 20, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: False imprisonment: false arrest: remedies. Primary sponsor: Dawn Addis (D). Most recent recorded action (September 27, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 602, Statutes of 2026.

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Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

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

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Dawn AddisPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly30

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 602, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
  4. In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
  5. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10.).
  6. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  7. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 13).
  8. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  9. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  10. Referred to Com. on JUD.
  11. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  12. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 17. Page 5426.)

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page