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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Immunity from arrest."
+description: "Existing law criminalizes various aspects of sex work, including soliciting anyone to engage in, or engaging in, lewd or dissolute conduct in a public place, loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, or maintaining a public nuisance. Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act (CUCSA) , also criminalizes various offenses relating to the possession, transportation, and sale of specified controlled substances."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20192020"
+identifier: "SB 233"
+citation: "California SB 233 (20192020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Immunity from arrest."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wiener"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-02-07"
+last_action: "2019-07-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/def8197c-e83d-4667-9b0f-a0cee3ca7882"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233"
+source_hash: "8106a752e0c5bf889a13cb50e1baa33c15c064ddbba4fd3fa273124ec23dd289"
+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 SB 233 (20192020) — Immunity from arrest.
+
+Existing law criminalizes various aspects of sex work, including soliciting anyone to engage in, or engaging in, lewd or dissolute conduct in a public place, loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, or maintaining a public nuisance. Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act (CUCSA) , also criminalizes various offenses relating to the possession, transportation, and sale of specified controlled substances.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/07/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233&version=20190SB23399INT)
+2. **03/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233&version=20190SB23398AMD)
+3. **04/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233&version=20190SB23397AMD)
+4. **04/23/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233&version=20190SB23396AMD)
+5. **06/17/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233&version=20190SB23395AMD)
+6. **07/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233&version=20190SB23393CHP)
+7. **SB233** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233)
+8. **07/10/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB233&version=20190SB23394ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
+- Unfinished Business SB233 Wiener et al. Concurrence — **30–9** (pass) · upper
+- SB 233 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Kamlager-Dove — **54–13** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading SB233 Wiener et al. — **28–10** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wiener — primary (person)
+- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
+- Friedman — coauthor (person)
+- Kamlager-Dove — coauthor (person)
+- Quirk — principal coauthor (person)
+- Wicks — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-07** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-02-08** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
+- **2019-02-21** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-06** Set for hearing April 2.
+- **2019-03-11** April 2 hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2019-03-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-12** Set for hearing April 9.
+- **2019-04-11** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 623.) (April 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-04-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-04-23** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-04-23** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2019-04-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 922.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-13** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-06-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-06-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-07-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 2493.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-07-01** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2019-07-08** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 1990.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-07-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
+- **2019-07-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-07-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 141, Statutes of 2019.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/def8197c-e83d-4667-9b0f-a0cee3ca7882`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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