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Bill	Violent felonies: video recording.	Existing law provides, for many criminal offenses, 3 possible terms of punishment. Existing law authorizes a court, in sentencing a person convicted of such a crime, to select the appropriate term which, in its sound discretion, best serves the interests of justice. Existing law allows the court to consider, in choosing an appropriate punishment, the record of the case, specified reports received by the court, and specified statements in aggravation or mitigation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1542	California AB 1542 (20172018)	bill	Violent felonies: video recording.	enacted	Dababneh	6	25	7	2017-02-17	2017-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/db40af58-9717-4343-9cf4-88a2696a8a3d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1542	114491e177940a86b9a37ff495ea3751502d2a6972be1bae3ebe9cc1a052c629	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1542 (20172018) — Violent felonies: video recording.

Existing law provides, for many criminal offenses, 3 possible terms of punishment. Existing law authorizes a court, in sentencing a person convicted of such a crime, to select the appropriate term which, in its sound discretion, best serves the interests of justice. Existing law allows the court to consider, in choosing an appropriate punishment, the record of the case, specified reports received by the court, and specified statements in aggravation or mitigation.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/01/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/11/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1542 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1542 DABABNEH Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1542 Dababneh et al. By Wiener — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1542 DABABNEH Assembly Third Reading — 76–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-16 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-04-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-01 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (May 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 1921.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2694.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Page 3254.)
• 2017-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3305.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 668, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db40af58-9717-4343-9cf4-88a2696a8a3d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).