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Bill	Juveniles: sealing of records.	Existing law subjects any person under 18 years of age who commits a crime to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge that person to be a ward of the court, except as specified. Under existing law, juvenile court proceedings to declare a minor a ward of the court are commenced by the filing of a petition by the probation officer, the district attorney after consultation with the probation officer, or the prosecuting attorney, as specified. Existing law requires the juvenile court to order the petition of a minor who is subject to the jurisdiction of the court dismissed if the minor satisfactorily completes a term of probation or an informal program of supervision, as specified, and requires the court to seal all records in the custody of the juvenile court pertaining to that dismissed petition, except that the prosecuting attorney and the probation department of any county may have access to the records for the limited purpose of determining whether the minor is eligible for deferred entry of judgment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 989	California AB 989 (20152016)	bill	Juveniles: sealing of records.	enacted	Cooper	8	24	5	2015-02-26	2015-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/0abd3f4f-1d28-40d2-982d-dbe3340a8ad7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB989	2fa12179f823d4dec924b8857dc70785954e47f3ada9b631e4a1f5a4a9419352	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 989 (20152016) — Juveniles: sealing of records.

Existing law subjects any person under 18 years of age who commits a crime to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge that person to be a ward of the court, except as specified. Under existing law, juvenile court proceedings to declare a minor a ward of the court are commenced by the filing of a petition by the probation officer, the district attorney after consultation with the probation officer, or the prosecuting attorney, as specified. Existing law requires the juvenile court to order the petition of a minor who is subject to the jurisdiction of the court dismissed if the minor satisfactorily completes a term of probation or an informal program of supervision, as specified, and requires the court to seal all records in the custody of the juvenile court pertaining to that dismissed petition, except that the prosecuting attorney and the probation department of any county may have access to the records for the limited purpose of determining whether the minor is eligible for deferred entry of judgment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/08/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/16/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/02/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/30/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB989 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 989 COOPER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 989 COOPER Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB989 Cooper By Hall — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cooper — primary (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 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
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-04-08 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
• 2015-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-04-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1102.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2015-06-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2597.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-09 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2990.)
• 2015-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3001.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 375, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0abd3f4f-1d28-40d2-982d-dbe3340a8ad7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).