republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-634.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public records: exception to disclosure: public officials."
description: "The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make public records available for inspection by the public, subject to specified criteria and with specified exceptions. The act prohibits a person, business, or association from publicly posting or displaying on the Internet the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official, defined to include a public safety official, if that official has made a written demand to not have that information disclosed. Existing law permits an elected or appointed official to designate the official's employer, a related governmental entity, or a voluntary professional association of similar officials to act as that official's agent with regard to making that written demand. Existing law requires a written demand made by an official's agent to describe a threat or fear for safety of the official or any person residing at the official's home address."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 634"
citation: "California AB 634 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public records: exception to disclosure: public officials."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gomez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2014-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7bf3f6ec-2211-4166-903a-39bb6b316688"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB634"
source_hash: "c40d7cfc29f15a635dd726c67cceff0876c4157828278fe2ba6e6c072593a87e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 634 (20132014) — Public records: exception to disclosure: public officials.

The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make public records available for inspection by the public, subject to specified criteria and with specified exceptions. The act prohibits a person, business, or association from publicly posting or displaying on the Internet the home address or telephone number of any elected or appointed official, defined to include a public safety official, if that official has made a written demand to not have that information disclosed. Existing law permits an elected or appointed official to designate the official's employer, a related governmental entity, or a voluntary professional association of similar officials to act as that official's agent with regard to making that written demand. Existing law requires a written demand made by an official's agent to describe a threat or fear for safety of the official or any person residing at the official's home address.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB634&version=20130AB63499INT)
2. **04/01/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB634&version=20130AB63498AMD)
3. **06/10/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB634&version=20130AB63497AMD)
4. **06/15/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB634&version=20130AB63496AMD)
5. **09/29/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB634&version=20130AB63494CHP)
6. **AB634** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB634)
7. **09/04/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB634&version=20130AB63495ENR)

## Votes

- AB 634 GOMEZ Assembly Third Reading — **73–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 634 GOMEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB634 Gomez By Correa — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- amendments be concurred in. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **15–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gomez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2013-03-04** Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 1380.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-12** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2014-06-12** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-12** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4759.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-26** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2014-08-26** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6459.)
- **2014-08-28** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 28). `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6670.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2014-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 791, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7bf3f6ec-2211-4166-903a-39bb6b316688`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).