---
type: "Bill"
title: "Menace to public health: closure by law enforcement."
description: "Existing law authorizes specified law enforcement and public safety officers and professionals to close an area where a menace to the public health or safety is created by a calamity, including flood, storm, fire, earthquake, explosion, accident, or other disaster, and makes it a misdemeanor for a person to enter an area closed by law enforcement for this purpose. Existing law specifies that these provisions do not prevent a duly authorized representative of a news service, newspaper, or radio or television station or network from entering the areas closed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 750"
citation: "California AB 750 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Menace to public health", "closure by law enforcement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-13"
last_action: "2023-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e993757e-1277-48ff-8d2c-28603b014840"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB750"
source_hash: "8ee3a31bada556111fec67db095c44b13ae97dd9d94f5de3c5c918bc354a02f2"
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 750 (20232024) — Menace to public health: closure by law enforcement.

Existing law authorizes specified law enforcement and public safety officers and professionals to close an area where a menace to the public health or safety is created by a calamity, including flood, storm, fire, earthquake, explosion, accident, or other disaster, and makes it a misdemeanor for a person to enter an area closed by law enforcement for this purpose. Existing law specifies that these provisions do not prevent a duly authorized representative of a news service, newspaper, or radio or television station or network from entering the areas closed.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB750&version=20230AB75099INT)
2. **03/16/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB750&version=20230AB75098AMD)
3. **04/06/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB750&version=20230AB75097AMD)
4. **06/29/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB750&version=20230AB75095CHP)
5. **AB750** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB750)
6. **06/13/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB750&version=20230AB75096ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 750 Rodriguez Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2023-03-16** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-12** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-13** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1273.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Referred to Com. on PUB S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1516.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-12** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2023-06-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 17, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e993757e-1277-48ff-8d2c-28603b014840`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).