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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Juveniles: room confinement."
+description: "Existing law places restrictions on the use of room confinement of minors or wards who are confined in a juvenile facility, as specified, and requires the placement of a minor or ward in room confinement to be conducted in accordance with specified guidelines. Existing law excludes from the definition of room confinement the confinement of a minor or ward in a single-person room or cell for brief periods of locked room confinement necessary for required institutional operations."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "AB 2321"
+citation: "California AB 2321 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Juveniles: room confinement."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jones-Sawyer"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2022-02-16"
+last_action: "2022-09-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d6fa4c6-da2f-4e4f-8981-0af227787a39"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2321"
+source_hash: "df1490a911e6dce49c18cd57a1fb270ef75e1076764d403b999ff9da9807cf7f"
+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 AB 2321 (20212022) — Juveniles: room confinement.
+
+Existing law places restrictions on the use of room confinement of minors or wards who are confined in a juvenile facility, as specified, and requires the placement of a minor or ward in room confinement to be conducted in accordance with specified guidelines. Existing law excludes from the definition of room confinement the confinement of a minor or ward in a single-person room or cell for brief periods of locked room confinement necessary for required institutional operations.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/16/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2321&version=20210AB232199INT)
+2. **05/19/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2321&version=20210AB232198AMD)
+3. **09/29/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2321&version=20210AB232196CHP)
+4. **AB2321** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2321)
+5. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2321&version=20210AB232197ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Special Consent AB2321 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2321 Jones-Sawyer Assembly Third Reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
+- **2022-03-03** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 19). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2022-05-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2022-05-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2022-06-08** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2022-08-02** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-08-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2022-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4980.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2022-08-23** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2022-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 781, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d6fa4c6-da2f-4e4f-8981-0af227787a39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+