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Bill	Sex offenders: working with minors.	Under existing law, a person required to register as a sex offender who applies for or accepts a position as an employee or volunteer with any person, group, or organization where he or she would be working directly and in an unaccompanied setting with minor children on a regular basis, is required to disclose his or her registrant status, as specified. Existing law also prohibits a person required to register as a sex offender because of a conviction for a crime where the victim was a minor under 16 years of age from being an employer, employee, or independent contractor, or acting as a volunteer with any person, group, or organization in a capacity in which the registrant would be working directly and in an unaccompanied setting with minor children on more than an incidental and occasional basis or from having supervision or disciplinary power over minor children. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 307	California AB 307 (20092010)	bill	Sex offenders: working with minors.	enacted	Cook	8	29	9	2009-02-17	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/074e6ddd-73e1-43f8-9aa5-927c06164255	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB307	7e72f9ed3fcebfb45bc58efa41e4eae5f8c2bc94ade116883659335d9fdbba71	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 307 (20092010) — Sex offenders: working with minors.

Under existing law, a person required to register as a sex offender who applies for or accepts a position as an employee or volunteer with any person, group, or organization where he or she would be working directly and in an unaccompanied setting with minor children on a regular basis, is required to disclose his or her registrant status, as specified. Existing law also prohibits a person required to register as a sex offender because of a conviction for a crime where the victim was a minor under 16 years of age from being an employer, employee, or independent contractor, or acting as a volunteer with any person, group, or organization in a capacity in which the registrant would be working directly and in an unaccompanied setting with minor children on more than an incidental and occasional basis or from having supervision or disciplinary power over minor children. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/24/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/20/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB307 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/21/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Senate amendments be concurred in. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 307 COOK Concurrence- Urgency Added — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — fail (fail) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 307 COOK Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB307 Cook Urgency Clause — pass (pass) · upper
• Set, first hearing. Failed passage in Committee. Reconsideration granted. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cook — primary (person)
• Benoit — coauthor (person)
• Leno — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2009-03-04 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2009-03-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-03-24 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2009-05-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-06 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-14 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1444.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2009-06-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-06-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-06-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-07-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-07-08 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (July 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-08-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-08-25 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-08-31 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-08-31 (received by desk August 28, 2009 pursuant to JR61(a)(11))
• 2009-09-01 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-03 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2159.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-09 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2009-09-09 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 3230.)
• 2009-09-10 From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (September 10). committee-passage
• 2009-09-11 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3354.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-28 Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 430, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/074e6ddd-73e1-43f8-9aa5-927c06164255. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).