---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courthouses: Privilege from civil arrest."
description: "Existing law prohibits specified conduct inside public buildings owned and occupied, or leased and occupied, by the state. Existing law provides that a judicial officer has the power to preserve and enforce order in judicial proceedings and to compel obedience to judicial orders, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 668"
citation: "California AB 668 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courthouses: Privilege from civil arrest."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-02-15"
last_action: "2019-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0dc69335-7015-4f1c-b743-d886a6a8500c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668"
source_hash: "ad543ce2a673ab378109903184062c438ceb275b3d8384e0a1464346a735f008"
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 668 (20192020) — Courthouses: Privilege from civil arrest.

Existing law prohibits specified conduct inside public buildings owned and occupied, or leased and occupied, by the state. Existing law provides that a judicial officer has the power to preserve and enforce order in judicial proceedings and to compel obedience to judicial orders, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668&version=20190AB66899INT)
2. **09/06/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668&version=20190AB66898AMD)
3. **10/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668&version=20190AB66896CHP)
4. **AB668** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668)
5. **09/16/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668&version=20190AB66897ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 668 Gonzalez Assembly Third Reading — **58–15** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **13–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB668 Gonzalez et al. By Durazo — **29–11** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 668 Gonzalez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **59–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gonzalez — primary (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — author (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Durazo — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 2029.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 11. Page 2763.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-11** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
- **2019-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 15. Page 3418.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 787, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0dc69335-7015-4f1c-b743-d886a6a8500c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).