---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law enforcement: communications."
description: "Existing law prohibits a variety of electronic eavesdropping, such as wiretapping and electronic recording that is done without a person's permission or knowledge. Existing law provides that violations of these provisions are crimes. Existing law exempts a variety of law enforcement entities from these prohibitions when acting within the scope of their authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1010"
citation: "California AB 1010 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Law enforcement: communications."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Furutani"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2011-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a56e704e-16cb-4e86-bb68-4f81ec452eeb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1010"
source_hash: "57f4e760abbb356ec6e02fe789767651c63fcdbfc40b0e0201774f19e76c8992"
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 1010 (20112012) — Law enforcement: communications.

Existing law prohibits a variety of electronic eavesdropping, such as wiretapping and electronic recording that is done without a person's permission or knowledge. Existing law provides that violations of these provisions are crimes. Existing law exempts a variety of law enforcement entities from these prohibitions when acting within the scope of their authority.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1010&version=20110AB101099INT)
2. **05/19/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1010&version=20110AB101098AMD)
3. **10/09/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1010&version=20110AB101096CHP)
4. **AB1010** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1010)
5. **08/31/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1010&version=20110AB101097ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1010 FURUTANI Assembly Third Reading — **42–13** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1010 Furutani By Lieu — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **4–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Furutani — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2011-03-14** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (April 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1433.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 13. Page 1571.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-06-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 1. Page 2075.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-29** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2011-09-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 659, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a56e704e-16cb-4e86-bb68-4f81ec452eeb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).