---
type: "Bill"
title: "Crime prevention."
description: "Crime prevention."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 186"
citation: "California AB 186 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime prevention."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maze"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2007-01-25"
last_action: "2008-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e48e6eb-e644-4fbc-ad19-96858ec03c41"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB186"
source_hash: "2025616acbd3d7a883babdc69ff13008a27b09a6be2e6b21a758fef350622adc"
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 186 (20072008) — Crime prevention.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/25/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB186&version=20070AB18699INT)
2. **09/15/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB186&version=20070AB18698AMD)
3. **09/30/08 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB186&version=20070AB18696CHP)
4. **AB186** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB186)
5. **09/17/08 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB186&version=20070AB18697ENR)

## Votes

- AB 186 MAZE Concurrence- Urgency Added — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 186 MAZE Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- W/O REF. TO FILE AB186 Maze Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maze — primary (person)
- Galgiani — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-01-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-01-26** From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
- **2007-02-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2007-02-27** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (February 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2007-03-28** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2008-01-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0. Page 3814.) (January 24). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-01-28** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3832.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-01-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2008-02-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-29** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2008-06-23** Place on Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2008-08-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission.
- **2008-09-15** Joint Rule 61(b)(16) suspended. (Page 5562.)
- **2008-09-15** Art. IV, Sec. 8(b) of the Constitution suspended. (Page 5563.)
- **2008-09-15** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2008-09-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-09-15** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2008-09-15** Senate Rule 29.3 suspended.
- **2008-09-16** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5593.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-09-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2008-09-16** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 7245.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2008-09-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2008-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2008-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 755, Statutes of 2008.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e48e6eb-e644-4fbc-ad19-96858ec03c41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).