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Bill	Illegal dumping enforcement officers and code enforcement officers.	Existing law defines "code enforcement officer" to mean specified persons employed by any governmental subdivision, public or quasi-public corporation, public agency, public service corporation, any town, city, county, or municipal corporation, whether incorporated or chartered, who have enforcement authority for health, safety, and welfare requirements, and whose duties include enforcement of any statute, rules, regulations, or standards, and who are authorized to issue citations, or file formal complaints. The term also refers to any person who is employed by the Department of Housing and Community Development who has enforcement authority for health, safety, and welfare requirements relating to housing, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 801	California AB 801 (20112012)	bill	Illegal dumping enforcement officers and code enforcement officers.	enacted	Swanson	8	34	7	2011-02-17	2012-09-13	openstates	ocd-bill/789b235d-20be-42d1-92ed-e2b3edde2366	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB801	5cdf92f2256fb574d1c2f955ca37fb1b6ceea8f70798be446a3f8847506a68cd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 801 (20112012) — Illegal dumping enforcement officers and code enforcement officers.

Existing law defines "code enforcement officer" to mean specified persons employed by any governmental subdivision, public or quasi-public corporation, public agency, public service corporation, any town, city, county, or municipal corporation, whether incorporated or chartered, who have enforcement authority for health, safety, and welfare requirements, and whose duties include enforcement of any statute, rules, regulations, or standards, and who are authorized to issue citations, or file formal complaints. The term also refers to any person who is employed by the Department of Housing and Community Development who has enforcement authority for health, safety, and welfare requirements relating to housing, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/11/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/02/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/20/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/13/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB801 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent #15 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB801 Swanson By Wright — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 801 SWANSON Consent Calendar Second Day — 67–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 801 SWANSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 801 SWANSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Swanson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2011-03-10 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-04-12 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-04-26 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-01-04 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
• 2012-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-01-10 From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (January 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-12 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-01-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 3515.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-01-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-02-02 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-06-28 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-07-05 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-07-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4320.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5905.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-16 Withdrawn from Engrossing and Enrolling.
• 2012-08-16 Action rescinded whereby the Assembly concurred in Senate amendments and whereby the bill was ordered to enrollment. Ordered returned to Senate.
• 2012-08-16 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2012-08-20 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2012-08-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4715.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6296.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
• 2012-09-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 298, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/789b235d-20be-42d1-92ed-e2b3edde2366. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).