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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Juveniles: transfer to court of criminal jurisdiction: appeals."
+description: "Existing law subjects a minor between 12 and 17 years of age, inclusive, who violates any federal, state, or local law or ordinance to, and a minor under 12 years of age who is alleged to have committed specified serious offenses to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge the minor to be a ward of the court. Existing law authorizes the district attorney to make a motion to transfer a minor from juvenile court to a court of criminal jurisdiction in a case in which a minor is alleged to have committed a felony when the minor was 16 years of age or older, or in a case in which a specified serious offense is alleged to have been committed by a minor when the minor was 14 or 15 years of age, but the minor was not apprehended prior to the end of juvenile court jurisdiction."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "AB 624"
+citation: "California AB 624 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Juveniles: transfer to court of criminal jurisdiction: appeals."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bauer-Kahan"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2021-02-12"
+last_action: "2021-09-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fead581c-35f2-41ad-9028-863616cc3377"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB624"
+source_hash: "0718a02331fd2c4fbcca0fd7844e3ea854625a2d7df275a08d1b6d23ffeeeeaf"
+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 624 (20212022) — Juveniles: transfer to court of criminal jurisdiction: appeals.
+
+Existing law subjects a minor between 12 and 17 years of age, inclusive, who violates any federal, state, or local law or ordinance to, and a minor under 12 years of age who is alleged to have committed specified serious offenses to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge the minor to be a ward of the court. Existing law authorizes the district attorney to make a motion to transfer a minor from juvenile court to a court of criminal jurisdiction in a case in which a minor is alleged to have committed a felony when the minor was 16 years of age or older, or in a case in which a specified serious offense is alleged to have been committed by a minor when the minor was 14 or 15 years of age, but the minor was not apprehended prior to the end of juvenile court jurisdiction.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/12/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB624&version=20210AB62499INT)
+2. **03/16/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB624&version=20210AB62498AMD)
+3. **04/21/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB624&version=20210AB62497AMD)
+4. **09/22/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB624&version=20210AB62495CHP)
+5. **AB624** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB624)
+6. **09/01/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB624&version=20210AB62496ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Consent Calendar AB624 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 624 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
+- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
+- Durazo — principal coauthor (person)
+- Stone — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
+- **2021-02-25** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-03-17** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2021-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-28** Coauthors revised.
+- **2021-04-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-12** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-05-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1624.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2021-06-09** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-07-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-08-16** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2021-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2240.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-08-31** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2021-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2021-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 195, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fead581c-35f2-41ad-9028-863616cc3377`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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