---
type: "Bill"
title: "Crimes against public health and safety: illegal dumping."
description: "Existing law prohibits the dumping of waste matter upon a road or highway or in other locations, as specified. A violation of this prohibition, generally, is an infraction punishable by specified fines that escalate for subsequent convictions. Under existing law, the court may, as a condition of probation, order the convicted person to remove, or pay for the removal of, the waste matter."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2374"
citation: "California AB 2374 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes against public health and safety: illegal dumping."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bauer-Kahan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-02-16"
last_action: "2022-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ad3f803-1e64-4282-9b18-4c5400df62a6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2374"
source_hash: "8d250bcf87c61a30e3dc64c18a79b213ebb9cd92430de1fb4987cde53caefb06"
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 2374 (20212022) — Crimes against public health and safety: illegal dumping.

Existing law prohibits the dumping of waste matter upon a road or highway or in other locations, as specified. A violation of this prohibition, generally, is an infraction punishable by specified fines that escalate for subsequent convictions. Under existing law, the court may, as a condition of probation, order the convicted person to remove, or pay for the removal of, the waste matter.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2374&version=20210AB237499INT)
2. **04/07/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2374&version=20210AB237498AMD)
3. **09/29/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2374&version=20210AB237496CHP)
4. **AB2374** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2374)
5. **08/19/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2374&version=20210AB237497ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2374 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Glazer — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2374 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
- Glazer — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2022-03-03** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2022-04-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 5). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 4707.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-25** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-27** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4871.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-08-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2022-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 784, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ad3f803-1e64-4282-9b18-4c5400df62a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).