---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergencies: crimes."
description: "Existing law defines looting as the commission of certain offenses during and within an affected county in a state of emergency or local emergency, as specified. Existing law includes any 2nd-degree burglary or grand theft in the definition of looting, and makes looting based on those offenses punishable by either imprisonment in a county jail for one year or as a felony."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 571"
citation: "California SB 571 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergencies", "crimes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Archuleta"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56977f86-87fb-4820-943e-2d651af367f2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB571"
source_hash: "9d24bfb421bccecef8db20f0091879dfa78e5c09cbb3020d859ba1eb3db9bd33"
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 SB 571 (20252026) — Emergencies: crimes.

Existing law defines looting as the commission of certain offenses during and within an affected county in a state of emergency or local emergency, as specified. Existing law includes any 2nd-degree burglary or grand theft in the definition of looting, and makes looting based on those offenses punishable by either imprisonment in a county jail for one year or as a felony.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB571&version=20250SB57199INT)
2. **03/25/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB571&version=20250SB57198AMD)
3. **05/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB571&version=20250SB57197AMD)
4. **07/17/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB571&version=20250SB57196AMD)
5. **09/02/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB571&version=20250SB57195AMD)
6. **09/04/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB571&version=20250SB57194AMD)
7. **10/10/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB571&version=20250SB57192CHP)
8. **SB571** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB571)
9. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB571&version=20250SB57193ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB571 Archuleta et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 571 Archuleta Senate Third Reading By Gabriel — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB571 Archuleta et al. Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Archuleta — primary (person)
- Arreguín — author (person)
- Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
- Grayson — principal coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — principal coauthor (person)
- Menjivar — principal coauthor (person)
- Pérez — principal coauthor (person)
- Reyes — principal coauthor (person)
- Richardson — principal coauthor (person)
- Stern — principal coauthor (person)
- Umberg — principal coauthor (person)
- Valladares — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2025-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 842.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-25** Set for hearing May 5.
- **2025-05-05** May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2025-05-16** Set for hearing May 23.
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1204.) (May 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1452.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-09** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-01** July 1 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 15). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-20** August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-04** Ordered to third reading.
- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3086.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2025-09-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2874.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2025-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 545, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56977f86-87fb-4820-943e-2d651af367f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).