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Bill	Expungement standards.	Existing law, subject to exceptions, provides that every defendant convicted of a misdemeanor and not granted probation and every defendant convicted of an infraction shall be permitted by the court to withdraw his or her plea of guilty or nolo contendere and enter a plea of not guilty or, if he or she has been convicted after a plea of not guilty, have the court set aside the verdict of guilty after one year from the date of judgment, provided he or she satisfies certain conditions. In either case, the court is required to dismiss the accusatory pleading against the defendant, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1384	California AB 1384 (20112012)	bill	Expungement standards.	enacted	Bradford	7	22	6	2011-02-18	2011-09-07	openstates	ocd-bill/4632542d-2864-4820-9d21-c048cc05340f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1384	cd821c62d6b5d35fd835e830705c21b8804802e30fec13f20eafc5cc6edcb76c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1384 (20112012) — Expungement standards.

Existing law, subject to exceptions, provides that every defendant convicted of a misdemeanor and not granted probation and every defendant convicted of an infraction shall be permitted by the court to withdraw his or her plea of guilty or nolo contendere and enter a plea of not guilty or, if he or she has been convicted after a plea of not guilty, have the court set aside the verdict of guilty after one year from the date of judgment, provided he or she satisfies certain conditions. In either case, the court is required to dismiss the accusatory pleading against the defendant, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/02/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/07/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1384 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1384 BRADFORD Assembly Third Reading — 47–25 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1384 Bradford By Vargas — 21–18 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 1384 BRADFORD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 48–26 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bradford — primary (person)
• Mitchell — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-21 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 25. Page 1347.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-05-26 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-06-02 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. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2011-07-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 18. Page 1963.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 48. Noes 26. Page 2497.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-09-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 284, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4632542d-2864-4820-9d21-c048cc05340f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).