republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-2222.md

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Bill	Criminal history records.	Existing law limits the disclosure of an individual's local summary criminal history information, and defines the term "local summary criminal history information" as a master record of information compiled by any local criminal justice agency pertaining to the identification and criminal history of any person, including name, date of birth, dates of arrests, and charges. Under existing law, an employee of a local criminal justice agency who knowingly furnishes a record or information obtained from a record to a person who is not authorized to receive the record or information is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law authorizes a public prosecutor to release local summary criminal history information pursuant to a request under the California Public Records Act under certain conditions, including that the release of information would enhance public safety, the interest of justice, or the public's understanding of the justice system.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2222	California AB 2222 (20112012)	bill	Criminal history records.	enacted	Block	5	19	5	2012-02-24	2012-07-10	openstates	ocd-bill/c3bbabf0-23cb-4cc7-bf9c-4f2c0fa1a71a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2222	e4c78d9cce52fbfa33c1b9b15442c4f8c8751d016e184e667d7062123a674353	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2222 (20112012) — Criminal history records.

Existing law limits the disclosure of an individual's local summary criminal history information, and defines the term "local summary criminal history information" as a master record of information compiled by any local criminal justice agency pertaining to the identification and criminal history of any person, including name, date of birth, dates of arrests, and charges. Under existing law, an employee of a local criminal justice agency who knowingly furnishes a record or information obtained from a record to a person who is not authorized to receive the record or information is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law authorizes a public prosecutor to release local summary criminal history information pursuant to a request under the California Public Records Act under certain conditions, including that the release of information would enhance public safety, the interest of justice, or the public's understanding of the justice system.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/10/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2222 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/26/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2222 BLOCK Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Governmental Organization to Consent Calendar. — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2222 Block By Vargas — 31–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Block — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-15 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and G.O. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 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
• 2012-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4778.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-06-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 4056.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-06-25 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2012-06-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2012-07-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-07-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 84, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c3bbabf0-23cb-4cc7-bf9c-4f2c0fa1a71a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).