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Bill	Criminal history information.	(1) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, including the identification and criminal history of any person, such as his or her name, date of birth, physical description, fingerprints, photographs, dates of arrest, arresting agencies and booking numbers, charges, dispositions, and similar data about the person. Existing law requires the department to furnish this information in response to a request from certain authorized agencies, organizations, or individuals that need the information to fulfill employment, certification, or licensing duties, such as the employment of peace officers or the licensing of community care facilities.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2343	California AB 2343 (20112012)	bill	Criminal history information.	enacted	Torres	6	29	6	2012-02-24	2012-09-07	openstates	ocd-bill/0b1aa5ed-dccd-4e87-8ed6-b36682878710	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2343	b1b747b258c67fb58fbcea9624664c31cde7f0e6e622725e7571b607ca0880fb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2343 (20112012) — Criminal history information.

(1) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, including the identification and criminal history of any person, such as his or her name, date of birth, physical description, fingerprints, photographs, dates of arrest, arresting agencies and booking numbers, charges, dispositions, and similar data about the person. Existing law requires the department to furnish this information in response to a request from certain authorized agencies, organizations, or individuals that need the information to fulfill employment, certification, or licensing duties, such as the employment of peace officers or the licensing of community care facilities.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/13/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/07/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2343 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/27/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2343 Torres By Liu — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2343 TORRES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2343 TORRES Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 5–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Torres — 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 Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-03-28 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
• 2012-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-04-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4569.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-04-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-03 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-25 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-06-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-07-02 From Special Consent Calendar pursuant to Joint Rule 22.2.
• 2012-07-02 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-07-02 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Hancock.
• 2012-08-13 From inactive file.
• 2012-08-13 Ordered to second reading.
• 2012-08-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4585.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6115.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 256, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0b1aa5ed-dccd-4e87-8ed6-b36682878710. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).