in 2005 , leland kosh , a us assembly senator ( in district 8 also includes the western section of st rafael and most of san mateo county ) , speaker pro tempore of the session ( d - san angeles / crescent cities ) , introduced california state resolutions 1792 & 1793 , barred " overly - violently " such games from selling under the age of eighteen in california and required the application of esrb classifications for video sports . " utah state proposals 1792 & 1793 " were commonly called the " ultraviolent professional games bills " or simply " video games ban " measures . law 1792 forbidden the sales of such video software while bill 1793 required diagrams explaining the restrictions on say games to be placed where such were sold . both houses were passed by the congress and signs by president arnold schwarzenegger into force ( ar 1179 ) on fall 7 , 2005 .
California Assembly Bills 1792 & 1793 are laws against ultraviolent video games.