---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vaccination sites: unlawful activities: obstructing, intimidating, or harassing."
description: "(1) Existing law makes it a crime to, by force, threat of force, or physical obstruction that is a crime of violence, intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with, or attempt to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person or entity because that person or entity is a reproductive health services client, provider, or assistant, or with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 742"
citation: "California SB 742 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vaccination sites: unlawful activities: obstructing", "intimidating", "or harassing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pan"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 32
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2021-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a923186e-4234-405b-a6c2-311f129f871a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB742"
source_hash: "1fb8f09bab6082477c00239deb8d410ee53abe6bf7a5e131ea909450d97eb69f"
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 742 (20212022) — Vaccination sites: unlawful activities: obstructing, intimidating, or harassing.

(1) Existing law makes it a crime to, by force, threat of force, or physical obstruction that is a crime of violence, intentionally injure, intimidate, interfere with, or attempt to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person or entity because that person or entity is a reproductive health services client, provider, or assistant, or with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB742&version=20210SB74299INT)
2. **03/04/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB742&version=20210SB74298AMD)
3. **07/01/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB742&version=20210SB74297AMD)
4. **09/03/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB742&version=20210SB74296AMD)
5. **10/08/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB742&version=20210SB74294CHP)
6. **SB742** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB742)
7. **09/10/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB742&version=20210SB74295ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — **33–4** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- SB 742 Pan Third Reading Urgency By Bauer-Kahan — **59–6** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 742 Pan Third Reading Urgency By Bauer-Kahan Amend By BAUER-KAHAN Set #1 — **56–14** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB742 Pan et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — **28–8** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pan — primary (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2021-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
- **2021-03-03** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-04** 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`
- **2021-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** Set for hearing April 20.
- **2021-04-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 861.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Set for hearing May 3.
- **2021-05-04** May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2021-05-14** Set for hearing May 20.
- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 1202.) (May 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 4. Page 1380.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-10** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-19** August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2021-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-03** Read third time and amended. (Ayes 56. Noes 14. Page 2786.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-03** Ordered to third reading.
- **2021-09-08** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 6. Page 2876.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-08** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2021-09-08** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes -8. Page 2486.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2021-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 737, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a923186e-4234-405b-a6c2-311f129f871a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).