republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-2298.md

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Bill	Criminal gangs.	Existing law, the California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act (act) , provides specified punishments for certain crimes committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with, a criminal street gang, as specified. The act defines a "shared gang database" as having various attributes, including, among others, that the database contains personal, identifying information in which a person may be designated as a suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate, or for which entry of a person in the database reflects a designation of that person as a suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate. Existing law requires a law enforcement agency, before designating a person as a suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate in the database, to provide a written notice to the person's parent or guardian, if the person is a minor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2298	California AB 2298 (20152016)	bill	Criminal gangs.	enacted	Weber	8	26	8	2016-02-18	2016-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/9f674b22-b0df-4002-929d-20e535facd5e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2298	5848673fd614aaa74e1cf06cd452173670ca649b034a745a641f438353ec25df	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2298 (20152016) — Criminal gangs.

Existing law, the California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act (act) , provides specified punishments for certain crimes committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with, a criminal street gang, as specified. The act defines a "shared gang database" as having various attributes, including, among others, that the database contains personal, identifying information in which a person may be designated as a suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate, or for which entry of a person in the database reflects a designation of that person as a suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate. Existing law requires a law enforcement agency, before designating a person as a suspected gang member, associate, or affiliate in the database, to provide a written notice to the person's parent or guardian, if the person is a minor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/06/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/31/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2298 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2298 WEBER Assembly Third Reading — 42–34 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 13–7 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2298 Weber By Mitchell — 24–9 (pass) · upper
• AB 2298 WEBER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 42–29 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Weber — primary (person)
• Leno — principal coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-03-17 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, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-04-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-06 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, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 7.) (May 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 34. Page 5196.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 9. Page 5276.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 42. Noes 29. Page 6384.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 752, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9f674b22-b0df-4002-929d-20e535facd5e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).