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Bill	Recovery of public records.	Existing law provides that every officer having the custody of any public record, as specified, filed or deposited in any public office, or placed in his or her hands for any purpose, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years if the officer willfully steals, removes, destroys, mutilates, defaces, alters, or falsifies the record, or causes another person to do so. Existing law also provides that every person not an officer who is guilty of any of these acts is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison or in a county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1245	California AB 1245 (20092010)	bill	Recovery of public records.	enacted	Monning	7	25	7	2009-02-27	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/bc283e16-1d27-4759-9664-00b749181f5a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1245	43cb4c5d499ef4f8ddf608d0bd6604180f3974941a63e181f8f2d77254ddb6b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1245 (20092010) — Recovery of public records.

Existing law provides that every officer having the custody of any public record, as specified, filed or deposited in any public office, or placed in his or her hands for any purpose, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years if the officer willfully steals, removes, destroys, mutilates, defaces, alters, or falsifies the record, or causes another person to do so. Existing law also provides that every person not an officer who is guilty of any of these acts is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison or in a county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/13/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1245 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/02/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1245 MONNING Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1245 MONNING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB1245 Monning By Harman — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Monning — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-03-31 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2009-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2009-04-23 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-28 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-14 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-18 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1630.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-04 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-06-29 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-30 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-14 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-07-15 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-27 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 1970.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2806.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-08 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 519, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc283e16-1d27-4759-9664-00b749181f5a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).