---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public safety officers: Procedural Bill of Rights."
description: "Public safety officers: Procedural Bill of Rights."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1586"
citation: "California AB 1586 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public safety officers: Procedural Bill of Rights."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Florez"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "1999-02-26"
last_action: "1999-09-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fe352a73-b77b-456d-8ecf-e1215b07f407"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1586"
source_hash: "687eeb603cc8cb09efadc03298244532739612dcbbc248a8fcbd12637ca0b5fe"
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 1586 (19992000) — Public safety officers: Procedural Bill of Rights.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/26/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1586&version=19990AB158699INT)
2. **06/23/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1586&version=19990AB158698AMD)
3. **09/07/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1586&version=19990AB158696CHP)
4. **AB1586** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1586)
5. **08/19/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1586&version=19990AB158697ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1586 Florez Costa — **pass** (pass) · upper
- SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Florez — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **1999-09-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 338, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-09-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-08-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
- **1999-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3312.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-08-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **1999-08-16** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2401.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-07-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-07-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-06-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-08** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-05-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-20** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1774.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-13** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-12** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-03-22** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-01** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **1999-02-28** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **1999-02-26** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fe352a73-b77b-456d-8ecf-e1215b07f407`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).