--- type: "Bill" title: "Sex Offenders: parole: disabling monitoring device." description: "Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person required to register as a sex offender from removing or disabling an electronic, global positioning system (GPS) , or other monitoring device, or permitting another to do so, if the device is a condition of parole. A violation of these provisions requires the parole authority to revoke the person's parole and to require incarceration of the person in a county jail for 180 days." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20132014" identifier: "AB 2121" citation: "California AB 2121 (20132014)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Sex Offenders: parole: disabling monitoring device."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Gray"] version_count: 6 action_count: 26 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2014-02-20" last_action: "2014-09-26" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4860aed4-947a-448a-a7e8-9d9b93727a46" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2121" source_hash: "138f597e8533aaf9528a1d98990613020377617573587c2c543c4f2350a10ef5" 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 2121 (20132014) — Sex Offenders: parole: disabling monitoring device. Existing law, subject to exceptions, prohibits a person required to register as a sex offender from removing or disabling an electronic, global positioning system (GPS) , or other monitoring device, or permitting another to do so, if the device is a condition of parole. A violation of these provisions requires the parole authority to revoke the person's parole and to require incarceration of the person in a county jail for 180 days. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/20/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2121&version=20130AB212199INT) 2. **04/21/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2121&version=20130AB212198AMD) 3. **07/01/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2121&version=20130AB212197AMD) 4. **09/26/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2121&version=20130AB212195CHP) 5. **AB2121** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2121) 6. **08/22/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2121&version=20130AB212196ENR) ## Votes - 3rd Reading AB2121 Gray By Block — **33–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper - AB 2121 GRAY Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower - AB 2121 GRAY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Gray — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2014-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2014-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23. - **2014-03-06** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee` - **2014-03-25** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. - **2014-04-01** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. - **2014-04-21** 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-2, reading-1` - **2014-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee` - **2014-04-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage` - **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2014-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2014-05-08** From consent calendar. - **2014-05-08** Ordered to third reading. - **2014-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4997.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage` - **2014-05-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2014-05-28** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee` - **2014-06-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage` - **2014-07-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee` - **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage` - **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2014-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4647.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage` - **2014-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2014-08-21** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6285.) - **2014-08-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6287.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2014-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. - **2014-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2014-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 603, Statutes of 2014. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4860aed4-947a-448a-a7e8-9d9b93727a46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).