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Bill	Petty theft: enhancements for prior convictions.	Existing law provides that petty theft is a misdemeanor, except that every person who, having been convicted 3 or more times of a qualifying offense is subsequently convicted of petty theft is subject to imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year for a misdemeanor, or in the county jail for a felony for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. Existing law also provides that persons required to register as sex offenders, or with a prior serious or violent felony conviction, who have been convicted and imprisoned for the commission of a qualified offense and who are subsequently convicted of petty theft are subject to imprisonment in a county jail for one year for a misdemeanor or in the state prison for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years for a felony with one prior qualifying offense.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 543	California SB 543 (20132014)	bill	Petty theft: enhancements for prior convictions.	enacted	Block	5	25	7	2013-02-22	2013-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/7a36ac56-02c9-4383-b3ff-1c69a8336fef	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB543	405208394c724f7fa292f1045d06a9b3d76e535a2bed3ee9e79bb5470a4a1741	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 543 (20132014) — Petty theft: enhancements for prior convictions.

Existing law provides that petty theft is a misdemeanor, except that every person who, having been convicted 3 or more times of a qualifying offense is subsequently convicted of petty theft is subject to imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year for a misdemeanor, or in the county jail for a felony for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. Existing law also provides that persons required to register as sex offenders, or with a prior serious or violent felony conviction, who have been convicted and imprisoned for the commission of a qualified offense and who are subsequently convicted of petty theft are subject to imprisonment in a county jail for one year for a misdemeanor or in the state prison for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years for a felony with one prior qualifying offense.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/12/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB543 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/11/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 543 Block Senate Third Reading By WALDRON — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #7 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Block — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-11 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-03-15 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2013-04-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 390.) (April 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2013-04-22 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-05-17 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2013-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1016.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-28 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2013-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1190.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-17 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2013-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-08-14 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3007.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-09 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2013-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 7 p.m.
• 2013-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 782, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7a36ac56-02c9-4383-b3ff-1c69a8336fef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).