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Bill	Human trafficking.	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. Existing law exempts from disclosure any investigatory or security file compiled by any other state or local police agency, or any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local agency for correctional, law enforcement, or licensing purposes. Existing law requires, however, that state and local law enforcement agencies make public specified information, including names of victims, relating to the circumstances surrounding all complaints or requests for assistance, among other things, except to the extent that disclosure of a particular item of information would endanger the safety of a person involved in the investigation. Existing law allows victims of specified crimes, including human trafficking, to request that their names be withheld from any public records request, and upon that request prohibits law enforcement agencies from disclosing those names except under specified circumstances. Existing law additionally prohibits law enforcement agencies from disclosing the addresses of victims of specified crimes, including human trafficking.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2498	California AB 2498 (20152016)	bill	Human trafficking.	enacted	Bonta	11	31	10	2016-02-19	2016-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/d6a6d336-e486-4bf8-84c9-2e07a9c1ed03	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2498	4cec3522a1d82d981a95f5295b35f75d463c5e6ac66779404d44e5a1d6409358	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2498 (20152016) — Human trafficking.

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. Existing law exempts from disclosure any investigatory or security file compiled by any other state or local police agency, or any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local agency for correctional, law enforcement, or licensing purposes. Existing law requires, however, that state and local law enforcement agencies make public specified information, including names of victims, relating to the circumstances surrounding all complaints or requests for assistance, among other things, except to the extent that disclosure of a particular item of information would endanger the safety of a person involved in the investigation. Existing law allows victims of specified crimes, including human trafficking, to request that their names be withheld from any public records request, and upon that request prohibits law enforcement agencies from disclosing those names except under specified circumstances. Existing law additionally prohibits law enforcement agencies from disclosing the addresses of victims of specified crimes, including human trafficking.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/07/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/30/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/26/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB2498 (committee substitute) — source
11. 08/30/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2498 BONTA Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2498 BONTA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2498 Bonta By Mitchell — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonta — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-08 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2016-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-04-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 5). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-07 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2016-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-11 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4871.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-26 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5277.). 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 80. Noes 0. Page 6381.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 644, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d6a6d336-e486-4bf8-84c9-2e07a9c1ed03. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).